Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:18:43 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pci device ensure sysdata initialised |
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:06:28PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > pci device ensure sysdata initialised > > [Ok, here is a patch to ensure sysdata is valid for all busses.] > > We have been seeing panic's on NUMA systems in pci_call_probe() in > 2.6.15-rc5-mm2 and -mm3. It seems that some changes have occured > to the meaning of the 'sysdata' for a device such that it is no > longer just an integer containing the node, it is now a structure > containing the node and other data. However, it seems that we do not > always initialise this sysdata before we probe the device.
Yeah, but this patch is just papering over that fact :(
In fact, you will not put these devices on the proper node with this patch, right? So I don't think it is what you want.
thanks,
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