Fw: 2.6.16 crashes when running numastat on p575

Christoph Lameter clameter at sgi.com
Mon Apr 3 15:25:16 EST 2006


On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Paul Jackson wrote:

> -		for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++) {
> +		for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> 
> Idle curiosity -- what keeps a cpu from going offline during
> this scan, and leaving us with the same crash as before?

Nothing keeps a processor from going offline. We could take the hotplug 
lock for every for_each_online_cpu() in the kernel. Could you take that 
up with the hotplug folks?





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