Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:42:12 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix. |
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 12:35:41PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > Frankly, I'm amazed the kernel worked for long without this. > Every linker script thinks the section is called .data.percpu. > Without this patch, every CPU ends up sharing the same "per-cpu" > variable. > This might explain the wierd per-cpu problem reports from Andrew and > Dave, and also that nagging feeling that I'm an idiot...
Hmm, 2.5.33 is doing some *really* weird crap. OTOH it doesn't appear to be tripping the BUG() in softirq.c, and disks seem to be doing okay. It survived 4 parallel mkfs's. I'll follow up with some kind of bugreport on the PCI and/or starfire.c front in a separate post.
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