The patch titled i386/x86_64: ACPI cpu_idle_wait() fix has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was i386-x86_64-acpi-cpu_idle_wait-fix.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: i386/x86_64: ACPI cpu_idle_wait() fix From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> The scheduler on Andreas Friedrich's hyperthreading system stopped working properly as of 2.6.18: the scheduler would never move tasks to another CPU! After a couple of attempts to corner the bug, the following smoking gun was found: BIOS reported wrong ACPI idfor the processor CPU#1: set_cpus_allowed(), swapper:1, 3 -> 2 [<c0103bbe>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x34/0x4a [<c0103ceb>] show_trace+0x2c/0x2e [<c01045f8>] dump_stack+0x2b/0x2d [<c0116a77>] set_cpus_allowed+0x52/0xec [<c0101d86>] cpu_idle_wait+0x2e/0x100 [<c0259c57>] acpi_processor_power_exit+0x45/0x58 [<c0259752>] acpi_processor_remove+0x46/0xea [<c025c6fb>] acpi_start_single_object+0x47/0x54 [<c025cee5>] acpi_bus_register_driver+0xa4/0xd3 [<c04ab2d7>] acpi_processor_init+0x57/0x77 [<c01004d7>] init+0x146/0x2fd [<c0103a87>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 A quick look at cpu_idle_wait() shows how broken that code is on i386: it changes the init task's affinity map but never restores it ... And because all userspace tasks get forked by init, they all inherited that single-CPU affinity mask. x86_64 cloned this bug too. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/kernel/process.c | 4 +++- arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/process.c~i386-x86_64-acpi-cpu_idle_wait-fix arch/i386/kernel/process.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c~i386-x86_64-acpi-cpu_idle_wait-fix +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ void cpu_idle(void) void cpu_idle_wait(void) { unsigned int cpu, this_cpu = get_cpu(); - cpumask_t map; + cpumask_t map, tmp = current->cpus_allowed; set_cpus_allowed(current, cpumask_of_cpu(this_cpu)); put_cpu(); @@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ void cpu_idle_wait(void) } cpus_and(map, map, cpu_online_map); } while (!cpus_empty(map)); + + set_cpus_allowed(current, tmp); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_idle_wait); diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c~i386-x86_64-acpi-cpu_idle_wait-fix arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c~i386-x86_64-acpi-cpu_idle_wait-fix +++ a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static void poll_idle (void) void cpu_idle_wait(void) { unsigned int cpu, this_cpu = get_cpu(); - cpumask_t map; + cpumask_t map, tmp = current->cpus_allowed; set_cpus_allowed(current, cpumask_of_cpu(this_cpu)); put_cpu(); @@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ void cpu_idle_wait(void) } cpus_and(map, map, cpu_online_map); } while (!cpus_empty(map)); + + set_cpus_allowed(current, tmp); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_idle_wait); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mingo@xxxxxxx are origin.patch genapic-optimize-fix-apic-mode-setup.patch convert-pm_sem-to-a-mutex.patch lockdep-annotate-nfs-nfsd-in-kernel-sockets.patch lockdep-annotate-nfs-nfsd-in-kernel-sockets-tidy.patch sysrq-x-show-blocked-tasks.patch lockdep-internal-locking-fixes.patch lockdep-misc-fixes-in-lockdepc.patch cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets.patch binfmt_elf-randomize-pie-binaries.patch 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