Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758285AbXFUUN2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:13:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756031AbXFUUNU (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:13:20 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:50981 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755760AbXFUUNT (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:13:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:12:19 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Eric Dumazet , Chuck Ebbert , Jarek Poplawski , Miklos Szeredi , chris@atlee.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [BUG] long freezes on thinkpad t60 Message-ID: <20070621201219.GC22303@elte.hu> References: <20070620093612.GA1626@ff.dom.local> <20070621073031.GA683@elte.hu> <20070621160817.GA22897@elte.hu> <467AAB04.2070409@redhat.com> <20070621202917.a2bfbfc7.dada1@cosmosbay.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.1.7 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 16 * Linus Torvalds wrote: > (And no, on 32-bit x86, we don't allow more than 128 CPU's. I don't > think such an insane machine has ever existed). and if people _really_ want to boot a large-smp 32-bit kernel on some new, tons-of-cpus box, as a workaround they can enable the spinlock debugging code, which has no limitation on the number of CPUs supported. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/