* Darren Hart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007 07:22:50 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Booting a SMP kernel with maxcpus=1 on a SMP system leads to a hard > > hang, because ACPI ignores the maxcpus setting and sends timer broadcast > > info for the offline CPUs. This results in a stuck for ever call to > > smp_call_function_single() on an offline CPU. > > > > Ignore the bogus information and print a kernel error to remind ACPI > > folks to fix it. > > > > Affects 2.6.21 / 2.6.22-rc > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > When I first booted with this patch I received the following in a loop: > > irq 9: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
What happens when booting w/out this patch? Don't want to add known regression to -stable. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
