Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:45:33 -0700 | From | Nishanth Aravamudan <> | Subject | Re: [BISECTION RESULT] sched: revert cpu_clock to pre-27ec4407790d075c325e1f4da0a19c56953cce23 state |
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On 04.08.2008 [15:00:47 -0700], Luck, Tony wrote: > > I'd bet resonable sums of money that we are (once again) accessing > > per-cpu variables in code before ia64 has a chance to initialize > > things so that they can actually work. :-( > > I tried this simple hack to check ... per-cpu variables are > not usable until cpu_init() sets up the "ar.k3" register on > ia64. So this hack checks to see if it is set before calling > cpu_clock():
Would you like me to test this patch on the box, to verify? It seems like you were able to reproduce the non-booting kernel?
Thanks, Nish
-- Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> IBM Linux Technology Center
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