Re: SMP broken in 1.3.70

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 3 Mar 1996 15:39:28 +0000 (GMT)


> During boot, the write remount or fsck of the root filesystem causes
> my 1.3.70 SMP kernel to loose it "Aeee, killing interrupt handler"
> on processor 1. This is on an ASUS PCI/E-P54NP4 motherboard.
>
> general protection: 0000
> CPU: 1
> EIP: 0010:[<0011344c>]
> EFLAGS: 00010246
>
> Sometimes it's in process update and sometimes it's in mount.

Linus changed the IRQ handlers and that has broken the SMP code in a few
places. I'm just trying to pin them down (I've found one - he assumes 16
irq lines .. the SMP runs stuff on IRQ16 as an IPI).

Alan