Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Booting when CPUs fail to come up. | Date | Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:37:02 +1100 |
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In message <20040220161042.GI23278@elf.ucw.cz> you write: > Hi! > > > I recently played with setting a bit in cpu_possible_map that wasn't > > in cpu_online_map: this can happen without hotplug CPU when a CPU > > fails to boot, for example. > > Is it safe to continue when one cpu is apparently malfunctioning?
Well, patch was overzealous and no longer required.
But we shouldn't crash when this happens just because a CPU didn't come up.
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