In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209092144140.10544-100000@localhost.localdomain> you
write:
>
> the attached patch fixes the NMI watchdog to trigger on all CPUs - the
> cpu_up() code broke it long time ago. With this patch NMI interrupts get
> generated on all CPUs, not just the boot CPU.
Well spotted. You might want to test the following patch which
catches calls to smp_call_function() before the cpus are actually
online. I ran a variant on my (crappy, old, SMP) box before I sent
the patch to Linus, and all I saw was the (harmless) tlb_flush.
diff -urNp --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.34/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c working-2.5.34-smp_call_cpus/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
--- linux-2.5.34/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c Wed Aug 28 09:29:40 2002
+++ working-2.5.34-smp_call_cpus/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c Tue Sep 10 14:50:15 2002
@@ -561,9 +561,15 @@ int smp_call_function (void (*func) (voi
* hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler.
*/
{
+ extern int smp_done;
struct call_data_struct data;
int cpus = num_online_cpus()-1;
+ if (!smp_done) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "smp_call_function %p called before SMP!\n",
+ func);
+ show_stack(NULL);
+ }
if (!cpus)
return 0;
diff -urNp --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/current-dontdiff --minimal linux-2.5.34/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c working-2.5.34-smp_call_cpus/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
--- linux-2.5.34/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c Sun Sep 1 12:22:57 2002
+++ working-2.5.34-smp_call_cpus/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c Tue Sep 10 14:35:07 2002
@@ -1218,7 +1218,10 @@ int __devinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
return 0;
}
+unsigned int smp_done = 0;
+
void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int max_cpus)
{
zap_low_mappings();
+ smp_done = 1;
}
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