Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] garbage values in file /proc/net/sockstat | Date | Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:24:15 +0100 |
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On Monday 23 January 2006 12:21, pravin shelar wrote: > In 2.6.16-rc1-mm1, (for x86_64 arch) cpu_possible_map is not same > as NR_CPUS (prefill_possible_map()). Therefore per cpu areas are allocated > for cpu_possible cpus only (setup_per_cpu_areas()). This causes sockstat > to return garbage value on x84_64 arch. > > So these per_cpu accesses are geting relocated (RELOC_HIDE) using > boot_cpu_pda[]->data_offset which is not initialized. > > There are other instances of same bug where per_cpu() macro is used > without cpu_possible() check. e.g. net/core/utils.c :: > net_random_reseed(), net/core/dev.c :: net_dev_init(), etc. > > This patch fixes these bugs.
Thanks. Patches Look good. Dave, can you push them for 2.6.16 still please?
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