On 13.08.2008 [18:25:53 +0200], Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'm happy to test any better patches. > > > > Linus just took a patch from my tree that should solve this > > once and for all for ia64. > > > > commit 10617bbe84628eb18ab5f723d3ba35005adde143 > > Author: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue Aug 12 10:34:20 2008 -0700 > > > > [IA64] Ensure cpu0 can access per-cpu variables in early boot code > > > > > > When you get a chance please test with your config against this > > tree just to confirm that this is fixed. > > there's also Peter's other patch upstream since yesterday (and included > in -rc3) which should solve the same problem: > > | commit c1955a3d4762e7a9bf84035eb3c4886a900f0d15 > | Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> > | Date: Mon Aug 11 08:59:03 2008 +0200 > | > | sched_clock: delay using sched_clock() > | > | Some arch's can't handle sched_clock() being called too early - delay > | this until sched_clock_init() has been called. > > so i'd be mighty surprised if this dual firepower of commits didnt at > least weaken this bug somewhat! ;-) Well Peter's patch was tested-by me, so I know it fixes the problem on the box I have access to, I'm verifying that -rc3 is ok. Tony, would you like me to test your patch in isolation (reverting c1955a3d4762e7a9bf84035eb3c4886a900f0d15) to see if it also fixes it? 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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