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

    I still do not agree.

    You have a system you tried to kick CPU #13 alive, and something very
    wrong happened, CPU #13 did not come up. It is there, has full access
    to memory, it is probably running some kind of program.... I'd not
    dare mount disks read-write in such situation and I believe crashing
    early is actually right thing to do.
    Pavel
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