On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 11:25 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Suresh, > > Suresh Siddha wrote: > > [...] > > This problem doesn't happen with more recent kernels and closer > > look at the 2.6.32 kernel shows that the code which masks > > the IO-APIC RTE's is not working as expected as the nr_ioapic_registers > > for each IO-APIC is not yet initialized at this point. In the later > > kernels we initialize nr_ioapic_registers much before and > > everything works as expected. > > > > For 2.6.[32..34] kernels, fix this issue by initializing > > nr_ioapic_registers early in mp_register_ioapic() > > > > Relevant upstream commit info: > > > > commit 7716a5c4ff5f1f3dc5e9edcab125cbf7fceef0af > > Why not cherry-pick 7716a5c4ff5 in full?
As that depends on the other commits like: commit 4b6b19a1c7302477653d799a53d48063dd53d555 Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> Date: Tue Mar 30 01:07:08 2010 -0700 Wanted to keep the changes as minimal as possible. thanks, suresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/