On 04.08.2008 [15:00:47 -0700], Luck, Tony wrote: > > I'd bet resonable sums of money that we are (once again) accessing > > per-cpu variables in code before ia64 has a chance to initialize > > things so that they can actually work. :-( > > I tried this simple hack to check ... per-cpu variables are > not usable until cpu_init() sets up the "ar.k3" register on > ia64. So this hack checks to see if it is set before calling > cpu_clock(): Would you like me to test this patch on the box, to verify? It seems like you were able to reproduce the non-booting kernel? Thanks, Nish -- Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxx> IBM Linux Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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