On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 19:25 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/andrea/aa.git;a=patch;h=30ed50adf6cfe85f7feb12c4279359ec52f5f2cd;hp=c03cf0621ed5941f7a9c1e0a343d4df30dbfb7a1 > > It's a big monlithic patch, but I'll split it. I applied this big patch to a fairly recent tree from Linus but it failed to boot. It got stuck somewhere in SMP bringup. I waited for several seconds but pressed the remote power switch when nothing more came out.. The last bit out of my serial console looked like: --- Booting Node 0, Processors #1 smpboot cpu 1: start_ip = 98000 cpu 1 node 0 cpu 1 apicid 2 node 0 Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc7-00048-g762ad8a-dirty #32 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81942a37>] numa_set_node+0x50/0x6a [<ffffffff8193f0b4>] init_intel+0x13c/0x232 [<ffffffff8193e50a>] ? get_cpu_cap+0xa3/0xa7 [<ffffffff8193e74e>] identify_cpu+0x240/0x347 [<ffffffff8193e869>] identify_secondary_cpu+0x14/0x1b [<ffffffff8194131b>] smp_store_cpu_info+0x3c/0x3e [<ffffffff8194176a>] start_secondary+0x109/0x21e numa cpu 1 node 0 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. #2 smpboot cpu 2: start_ip = 98000 cpu 2 node 0 cpu 2 apicid 4 node 0 Pid: 0, comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc7-00048-g762ad8a-dirty #32 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81942a37>] numa_set_node+0x50/0x6a [<ffffffff8193f0b4>] init_intel+0x13c/0x232 [<ffffffff8193e50a>] ? get_cpu_cap+0xa3/0xa7 [<ffffffff8193e74e>] identify_cpu+0x240/0x347 [<ffffffff8193e869>] identify_secondary_cpu+0x14/0x1b [<ffffffff8194131b>] smp_store_cpu_info+0x3c/0x3e [<ffffffff8194176a>] start_secondary+0x109/0x21e numa cpu 2 node 0 NMI -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href