Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:44:16 -0600 | From | Nathan Lynch <> | Subject | Re: More than 8 CPUs detected and CONFIG_X86_PC cannot handle it on 2.6.16-rc6 |
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Ashok Raj wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 02:22:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > And does it affect pretend-x86-hotplug, or is it only affecting real hotplug? > > > its no more pretend-x86, in the past we used to put the cpu in idle(), > now we do put the cpu in halt and bring back by another startup ipi, just like > boot sequence, both for x86 and x86_64.
That's actually broken since 2.6.14 (at least on my P3 box); please see:
Subject: i386 cpu hotplug bug - instant reboot when onlining secondary
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/19/186
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