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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:57:05 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux v2.5.48
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On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 08:41:05PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm.. All over the place, best you see the changelog. Lots of small 
> cleanups (remove unnecessary header files etc), but a few more fundamental 
> changes too. Times in nsecs in stat64(), for example, and the 
> oft-discussed kernel module loader changes..

This oopses on NUMA-Q sometime prior to TSC synch and then hangs in TSC
synch because not all cpus are responding where 2.5.47-mm3 (which
included some intermediate bk stuff) did not. This is because AP's are
taking timer interrupts before they are prepared to do so. Please apply
the following patch from Martin Bligh which resolves this issue:


Thanks,
Bill


diff -purN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude virgin/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c noearlyirq/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
--- virgin/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c	Mon Nov  4 14:30:27 2002
+++ noearlyirq/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c	Wed Nov  6 15:22:12 2002
@@ -419,6 +419,7 @@ void __init smp_callin(void)
  	smp_store_cpu_info(cpuid);
 
 	disable_APIC_timer();
+	local_irq_disable();
 	/*
 	 * Allow the master to continue.
 	 */
@@ -1186,6 +1187,7 @@ int __devinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
 	if (!test_bit(cpu, &cpu_callin_map))
 		return -EIO;
 
+	local_irq_enable();
 	/* Unleash the CPU! */
 	set_bit(cpu, &smp_commenced_mask);
 	while (!test_bit(cpu, &cpu_online_map))
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