Re: [crash] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null), last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/local_cpus

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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> exposed by Jesse's patch too.
> 
> please check
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/pci.h |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/pci.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/pci.h
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/pci.h
> @@ -143,7 +143,14 @@ static inline int __pcibus_to_node(const
>  static inline const struct cpumask *
>  cpumask_of_pcibus(const struct pci_bus *bus)
>  {
> -	return cpumask_of_node(__pcibus_to_node(bus));
> +	int node;
> +
> +	node = __pcibus_to_node(bus);
> +
> +	if (node == -1)
> +		node = numa_node_id();
> +
> +	return cpumask_of_node(node);

This looks like the wrong fix. Why would the pcibus cpumask depend on the 
node we happen to run on right now? All the other code says "no node means 
all online cpus", which makes much more sense.

		Linus
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