Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757282AbYHMRLA (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:11:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753588AbYHMRKj (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:10:39 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.30]:19786 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753549AbYHMRKi (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:10:38 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=XNUdgtrHZQHfU5gmmUyGgQJS6tI69Jq3Wbfb4XrtHTsrQ+uznVyQcltdmA2FNh6P9d Mo1Y8029rDXPM31jQeJGrG+HoryKppvOxmIU4Ij7LN4zKV7wKjncDVYz6FXOHgLL93xN u+lAEfA4RXK4tg+YGWT2wiJq090qWyZPe6PEE= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:10:36 +0800 From: "Jeff Chua" To: "Ingo Molnar" Subject: Re: 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs Cc: "Yinghai Lu" , "David Miller" , "Linux Kernel" In-Reply-To: <20080813141629.GD19397@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080813141629.GD19397@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1410 Lines: 36 On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > btw., could you please check that v2.6.27-rc3 (or later) kernels boot > fine (with about 8 cpus) even if you have genericarch/bigsmp disabled, > and do not silently hang as it happened on your box before? With 16 CPUs, it still hangs, but now the console is showing the errors as intended. ... but it is supposed to hang? More than 8 CPUs detected - skipping them. Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH and CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP. More than 8 CPUs detected - skipping them. Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH and CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP. More than 8 CPUs detected - skipping them. Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH and CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP. More than 8 CPUs detected - skipping them. Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH and CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP. Booting processor 8/1 ip 6000 Initializing CPU#8 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3723.88 BogoMIPS (lpj=7447763) CPU: L1 I cache: 32Kb, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 1 CPU8: Intel(8) Xeon(R) CPU L7345 @ 1.86GHz stepping 0b checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#8]: passed. *** HANGS HERE *** Thanks, Jeff. -- 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/