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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Booting when CPUs fail to come up.
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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.

Rusty.
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