From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262373AbTHUBNq (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:13:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262380AbTHUBNq (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:13:46 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.131]:35990 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262373AbTHUBNp (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:13:45 -0400 From: Andrew Theurer Reply-To: habanero@us.ibm.com To: Dave Hansen Subject: Re: CPU boot problem on 2.6.0-test3-bk8 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:13:51 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel References: <200308201658.05433.habanero@us.ibm.com> <1061427779.9371.318.camel@nighthawk> In-Reply-To: <1061427779.9371.318.camel@nighthawk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308202013.51702.habanero@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 20 August 2003 20:02, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:58, Andrew Theurer wrote: > > Maybe this is already known, but just in case: > > I cannot fully boot on an x440 system with 2.6.0-test3-bk8. The kernel > > tries to boot more than the 16 logical processors, and after failing (no > > response) on cpus 16, 17, and 18, it still thinks it has 19 cpus total. > > It finally gets stuck at "checking TSC synchronization across 19 CPUs:" > > > > Attached is the boot log. Any ideas? I'll try -test3-bk7 next > > Can you see if it works without HT on? Did it work on plain -test3? > My 16-way x440 with no HT boots fine on test3. I'll try without HT to see what happens. FWIW, it boots fine with HT if I set maxcpus=16. I am wondering if (apicid == BAD_APIC) test is not working in smp_boot_cpus. -Andrew Theurer