On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:23:02PM -0700, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: > From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto at ct.jp.nec.com> > > Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto at ct.jp.nec.com> > --- > include/asm-x86/smp_64.h | 2 ++ > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/asm-x86/smp_64.h b/include/asm-x86/smp_64.h > index 6f0e027..ab612b0 100644 > --- a/include/asm-x86/smp_64.h > +++ b/include/asm-x86/smp_64.h > @@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ extern unsigned __cpuinitdata disabled_cpus; > > #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ > > +#define safe_smp_processor_id() smp_processor_id() > + Can you please implement a patch for safe_smp_processor_id() instead of using smp_processor_id(). safe_smp_processor_id() was introduced to make sure that we are not dependent on the stack of threads after kernel has crashed instead read the apic id and convert it to cpu id with other data structures. This helped in stack overflow case. Hardcoding it to smp_processor_id() will give the false impression. Thanks Vivek