Re: [BUG][2.6.0-test3-bk7] x86-64 UP_IOAPIC panic caused by cpumask_t conversion

[Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>]

Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> writes:

> --- linux-2.6.0-test3-bk7/include/linux/cpumask.h.~1~	2003-08-19 23:48:50.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test3-bk7/include/linux/cpumask.h	2003-08-20 00:07:17.000000000 +0200
> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
>  typedef unsigned long cpumask_t;
>  #endif
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC)
>  #if NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG
>  #include <asm-generic/cpumask_array.h>
>  #else
>
> Since NR_CPUS==1 this makes UP_IOAPIC use cpumask_arith.h,
> which is what the code used before the cpumask_t conversion.
> With this change, the box boots Ok again.

Nasty.

But why does i386/UP work?

>
> (I believe this is the correct thing to do, except having
> CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC in generic code isn't quite right.)

Better would be to undo the cpumask_t changes in io_apic.c
and go back to unsigned long masks there again.

Obviously a cpu mask is not the right data structure to manage APICs

Another way would be to do whatever i386 does to avoid the problem.
The IO-APIC code is unfortunately quite out of date/unsynced compared to i386,
maybe it just needs some bug fix ported over. I will check that later.

-Andi