A recent patch introduced cpu topology in sysfs. When you run a kernel with SMP and sysfs enabled, you now get an Oops on boot. The following patch fixes that by adding topology_init to arch/mips/kernel/smp.c. The code is copied from arch/s390/kernel/smp.c. Signed-off-by: Rojhalat Ibrahim <imr@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/smp.c @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ #include <linux/timex.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/cpumask.h> +#include <linux/cpu.h> #include <asm/atomic.h> #include <asm/cpu.h> @@ -424,6 +425,24 @@ void flush_tlb_one(unsigned long vaddr) local_flush_tlb_one(vaddr); } +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu, cpu_devices); + +static int __init topology_init(void) +{ + int cpu; + int ret; + + for_each_cpu(cpu) { + ret = register_cpu(&per_cpu(cpu_devices, cpu), cpu, NULL); + if (ret) + printk(KERN_WARNING "topology_init: register_cpu %d " + "failed (%d)\n", cpu, ret); + } + return 0; +} + +subsys_initcall(topology_init); + EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_tlb_page); EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_tlb_one); EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_data);