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2008-07-08x86: cleanup machine_specific_memory_setup, v2Yinghai Lu
1. let 64bit support 88 and e801 too 2. introduce default_machine_specific_memory_setup, and reuse it for voyager v2: fix 64 bit compiling Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: use acpi_numa_init to parse on 32-bit numaYinghai Lu
seperate SRAT finding and parsing from get_memcfg_from_srat, and let getmemcfg_from_srat only handle array from previous step. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: Kconfig cleanup with genericarchYinghai Lu
we already have summit and etc depends on genericarch, so use genericarch only. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: move some function out of setup_bootmem_allocYinghai Lu
... to make it more like 64-bit. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: merge setup_memory_map with e820Yinghai Lu
... and kill e820_32/64.c and e820_32/64.h Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: kill bad_pproYinghai Lu
so don't punish all other cpus without that problem when init highmem Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: move e820_resource_resources to e820.cYinghai Lu
and make 32-bit resource registration more like 64 bit. also move probe_roms back to setup_32.c Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86 boot: pass E820 memory map entries more than 128 via linked list of ↵Huang, Ying
setup data Because of the size limits of struct boot_params (zero page), the maximum number of E820 memory map entries can be passed to kernel is 128. As pointed by Paul Jackson, there is some machine produced by SGI with so many nodes that the number of E820 memory map entries is more than 128. To enabling Linux kernel on these system, a new setup data type named SETUP_E820_EXT is defined to pass additional memory map entries to Linux kernel. This patch is based on x86/auto-latest branch of git-x86 tree and has been tested on x86_64 and i386 platform. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86, mm: use add_highpages_with_active_regions() for high pages init v2Yinghai Lu
use early_node_map to init high pages, so we can remove page_is_ram() and page_is_reserved_early() in the big loop with add_one_highpage also remove page_is_reserved_early(), it is not needed anymore. v2: fix the build of other platforms Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: rename two e820 related functionsYinghai Lu
rename update_memory_range to e820_update_range rename add_memory_region to e820_add_region to make it more clear that they are about e820 map operations. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: use dstapic in mp_config_acpi_legacy_irqsYinghai Lu
so we don't get the same value multiple times. also make mp_config_acpi_legacy_irqs more readable by moving assignments together. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: keep MP_intsrc_info untouched if we do not update mptableYinghai Lu
Daniel Exner reported IO-APIC enumeration breakage in linux-next. Alexey Starikovskiy found out that it might be related to commit 2944e16b25 "x86: update mptable". use enable_update_mptable to decide if need check before add mp_irqs array. Reported-by: Daniel Exner <webmaster@dragonslave.de> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: clean up relocate_initrdYinghai Lu
1. move that before zone_sizes_init ... 2. add free_early for one old one, otherwise it will be be reserved again when we init highmem. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: replace shrink_active_range() with remove_active_range()Yinghai Lu
in case we have kva before ramdisk on a node, we still need to use those ranges. v2: reserve_early kva ram area, in case there are holes in highmem, to avoid those area could be treat as free high pages. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: clean up reserve_bootmem_generic() and port it to 32-bitYinghai Lu
1. add reserve_bootmem_generic for 32bit 2. change len to unsigned long 3. make early_res_to_bootmem to use it Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: make generic arch support NUMAQ, fix #2Yinghai Lu
we are checking mptable early for numaq, so don't need to reserve_bootmem for it. bootmem is not there yet. do the same thing as 64-bit. found it on 64g above system from 64-bit kernel kexec to 32 bit kernel with numaq support. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: make generic arch support NUMAQ, fixYinghai Lu
fix typo in bigsmp switching. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: e820 merge parsing of the mem=/memmap= boot parametersYinghai Lu
since we now have 32-bit support for e820_register_active_regions(), we can merge the parsing of the mem=/memmap= boot parameters. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: unify the reserve_bootmem() behavior of early_res_to_bootmem()Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: use reserve_bootmem_generic() to reserve crashkernel memory on x86_64Bernhard Walle
This patch uses reserve_bootmem_generic() instead of reserve_bootmem() to reserve the crashkernel memory on x86_64. That's necessary for NUMA machines, see 00212fef814612245ed0261cbac8426d0c9a31a5: [PATCH] Fix kdump Crash Kernel boot memory reservation for NUMA machines This patch will fix a boot memory reservation bug that trashes memory on the ES7000 when loading the kdump crash kernel. The code in arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c to reserve boot memory for the crash kernel uses the non-numa aware "reserve_bootmem" function instead of the NUMA aware "reserve_bootmem_generic". I checked to make sure that no other function was using "reserve_bootmem" and found none, except the ones that had NUMA ifdef'ed out. I have tested this patch only on an ES7000 with NUMA on and off (numa=off) in a single (non-NUMA) and multi-cell (NUMA) configurations. Signed-off-by: Amul Shah <amul.shah@unisys.com> Looks-good-to: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> The switch-back to reserve_bootmem() was accidentally introduced in 5c3391f9f749023a49c64d607da4fb49263690eb when adding the BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE parameter. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08x86: add flags parameter to reserve_bootmem_generic()Bernhard Walle
This patch adds a 'flags' parameter to reserve_bootmem_generic() like it already has been added in reserve_bootmem() with commit 72a7fe3967dbf86cb34e24fbf1d957fe24d2f246. It also changes all users to use BOOTMEM_DEFAULT, which doesn't effectively change the behaviour. Since the change is x86-specific, I don't think it's necessary to add a new API for migration. There are only 4 users of that function. The change is necessary for the next patch, using reserve_bootmem_generic() for crashkernel reservation. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08Merge branch 'linus' into tmp.x86.mpparse.newIngo Molnar
2008-07-05Merge branch 'x86/s2ram-fix' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar
2008-07-05x86 ACPI: fix resume from suspend to RAM on uniprocessor x86-64Rafael J. Wysocki
Since the trampoline code is now used for ACPI resume from suspend to RAM, the trampoline page tables have to be fixed up during boot not only on SMP systems, but also on UP systems that use the trampoline. Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10923 Reported-by: Dionisus Torimens <djtm@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-05x86 ACPI: normalize segment descriptor register on resumeH. Peter Anvin
Some Dell laptops enter resume with apparent garbage in the segment descriptor registers (almost certainly the result of a botched transition from protected to real mode.) The only way to clean that up is to enter protected mode ourselves and clean out the descriptor registers. This fixes resume on Dell XPS M1210 and Dell D620. Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10927 Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-04Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: xen: fix address truncation in pte mfn<->pfn conversion arch/x86/mm/init_64.c: early_memtest(): fix types x86: fix Intel Mac booting with EFI
2008-07-04Alpha Linux kernel fails with inconsistent kallsyms dataBastian Blank
The build of the Alpha Linux kernel currently fails[1] with inconsistent kallsyms data. As I never saw that before, I thought about hardware problems. But in fact it is a bug in the Linux kernel. The end of the rodata section is marked with the "__end_rodata" symbol. This symbol have different aligning constraints than the inittext parts and therefor the start marked "_sinittext". Because of that the __end_rodata symbol shifts between < _sinittext and == _sinittext. The later variant is seen as a code symbol and recorded in the kallsyms data. On fix would be to move the exception table a little bit and get some space between that two areas. [1]: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=linux-2.6&arch=alpha&ver=2.6.25-5&stamp=1213919009&file=log&as=raw Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04mn10300: provide __ucmpdi2() for MN10300David Howells
Provide __ucmpdi2() for MN10300 so that allmodconfig can be built. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04mn10300: export certain arch symbols required to build allmodconfigDavid Howells
Export kernel_thread() and empty_zero_page so that allmodconfig can be built for MN10300. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04xen: fix address truncation in pte mfn<->pfn conversionJeremy Fitzhardinge
When converting the page number in a pte/pmd/pud/pgd between machine and pseudo-physical addresses, the converted result was being truncated at 32-bits. This caused failures on machines with more than 4G of physical memory. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@theshore.net> Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-03[MIPS] cevt-txx9: Reset timer counter on initializationAtsushi Nemoto
The txx9_tmr_init() will not clear a timer counter register in a certain case. The counter register is cleared on 1->0 transition of TCE bit if CRE=1. So just clearing the TCE bit is not enough. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-07-03[MIPS] IP22: Fix crashes due to wrong L1_CACHE_BYTESThomas Bogendoerfer
The introduction of a real dma cache invalidate makes it important to have a correct cache line size, otherwise the kernel will gives out two memory segment, which might share one cache line. The R4400 Indy/Indigo2 CPU modules are using a second level cache line size of 128 bytes, so MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT needs to be bumped up to 7 for IP22. Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-07-03[MIPS] IP32: Fix unexpected irq 71Thomas Bogendoerfer
It's possible that the crime interrupt handler is called without pending interrupts (probably a hardware issue). To avoid irritating "unexpected irq 71" messages, we now just ignore the spurious crime interrupts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-07-03arch/x86/mm/init_64.c: early_memtest(): fix typesAndrew Morton
fix this warning: arch/x86/mm/init_64.c: In function 'early_memtest': arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:524: warning: passing argument 2 of 'find_e820_area_size' from incompatible pointer type Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-03x86: fix Intel Mac booting with EFIHugh Dickins
Fedora reports that mem_init()'s zap_low_mappings(), extended to SMP in 61165d7a035f6571c7576e7f51e7230157724c8d x86: fix app crashes after SMP resume causes 32-bit Intel Mac machines to reboot very early when booting with EFI. The EFI code appears to manage low mappings for itself when needed; but like many before it, confuses PSE with PAE. So it has only been mapping half the space it needed when PSE but not PAE. This remained unnoticed until we moved the SMP zap_low_mappings() before efi_enter_virtual_mode(). Presumably could have been noticed years ago if anyone ran a UP kernel on such machines? Reported-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
2008-07-02Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] export account_system_vtime [IA64] Bugfix for system with 32 cpus
2008-07-02Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 5131/1: Annotate platform_secondary_init with trace_hardirqs_off [ARM] 5117/1: pxafb: fix __devinit/exit annotations [ARM] Export dma_sync_sg_for_device() [ARM] 5109/1: Mark rtc sa1100 driver as wakeup source before registering it [ARM] 5116/1: pxafb: cleanup and fix order of failure handling [ARM] 5115/1: pxafb: fix ifdef for command line option handling ARM: OMAP: Correcting the gpmc prefetch control register address ARM: OMAP: DMA: Don't mark channel active in omap_enable_channel_irq
2008-07-02Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: fix NODES_SHIFT Kconfig range
2008-07-02Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: powerpc/mpc5200: Fix lite5200b suspend/resume powerpc/legacy_serial: Bail if reg-offset/shift properties are present powerpc/bootwrapper: update for initrd with simpleImage
2008-07-03Merge branch 'for-2.6.26' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6-mpc52xx ↵Paul Mackerras
into merge
2008-07-01powerpc/mpc5200: Fix lite5200b suspend/resumeTim Yamin
Suspend/resume ("echo mem > /sys/power/state") does not work with vanilla kernels -- the system does not suspend correctly and just hangs. This patch fixes this so suspend/resume works: 1) of_iomap does not map the whole 0xC000 of the MPC5200 immr so saving registers does not work. 2) PCI registers need to be saved and restored. Signed-off-by: Tim Yamin <plasm@roo.me.uk> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-07-01powerpc/legacy_serial: Bail if reg-offset/shift properties are presentJohn Linn
The legacy serial driver does not work with an 8250 type UART that is described in the device tree with the reg-offset and reg-shift properties. This change makes legacy_serial ignore these devices. Signed-off-by: John Linn <john.linn@xilinx.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-07-01powerpc/bootwrapper: update for initrd with simpleImageJohn Linn
This change to the makefile corrects the build of a simpleImage with initrd. Signed-off-by: John Linn <john.linn@xilinx> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2008-07-01x86: fix NODES_SHIFT Kconfig rangeThomas Gleixner
commit 4323838215184f5a2f081e0d17b8d60731b03164 x86: change size of node ids from u8 to s16 set the range for NODES_SHIFT to 1..15. The possible range is 1..9 Fixes Bugzilla #10726 Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-30[IA64] export account_system_vtimeDoug Chapman
The symbol account_system_vtime is used by the kvm module but not exported. This breaks building with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and CONFIG_KVM=m. Signed-off-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com> Acked-by: Hidetosho Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-06-30[IA64] Bugfix for system with 32 cpusTony Luck
On a system where there are no hot pluggable cpus "additional_cpus" is still set to -1 at the point where we call per_cpu_scan_finalize(). If we didn't find an SRAT table and so pick the default "32" for the number of cpus, when we get to: high_cpu = min(high_cpu + reserve_cpus, NR_CPUS); we will end up initializing for just 31 cpus ... and so we will die horribly when bringing up cpu#32. Problem introduced by: 2c6e6db41f01b6b4eb98809350827c9678996698 "Minimize per_cpu reservations." Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-06-30[ARM] 5131/1: Annotate platform_secondary_init with trace_hardirqs_offCatalin Marinas
This patch annotates the platform_secondary_init function in arch/arm/mach-realview/platsmp.c with trace_hardirqs_off to avoid a warning when LOCKDEP and TRACE_IRQFLAGS are enabled. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-30Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ptrace GET/SET FPXREGS broken x86: fix cpu hotplug crash x86: section/warning fixes x86: shift bits the right way in native_read_tscp
2008-06-30ptrace GET/SET FPXREGS brokenTAKADA Yoshihito
When I update kernel 2.6.25 from 2.6.24, gdb does not work. On 2.6.25, ptrace(PTRACE_GETFPXREGS, ...) returns ENODEV. But 2.6.24 kernel's ptrace() returns EIO. It is issue of compatibility. I attached test program as pt.c and patch for fix it. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <errno.h> #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <sys/types.h> struct user_fxsr_struct { unsigned short cwd; unsigned short swd; unsigned short twd; unsigned short fop; long fip; long fcs; long foo; long fos; long mxcsr; long reserved; long st_space[32]; /* 8*16 bytes for each FP-reg = 128 bytes */ long xmm_space[32]; /* 8*16 bytes for each XMM-reg = 128 bytes */ long padding[56]; }; int main(void) { pid_t pid; pid = fork(); switch(pid){ case -1:/* error */ break; case 0:/* child */ child(); break; default: parent(pid); break; } return 0; } int child(void) { ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); sleep(10); return 0; } int parent(pid_t pid) { int ret; struct user_fxsr_struct fpxregs; ret = ptrace(PTRACE_GETFPXREGS, pid, 0, &fpxregs); if(ret < 0){ printf("%d: %s.\n", errno, strerror(errno)); } kill(pid, SIGCONT); wait(pid); return 0; } /* in the kerel, at kernel/i387.c get_fpxregs() */ Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-30x86: fix cpu hotplug crashZhang, Yanmin
Vegard Nossum reported crashes during cpu hotplug tests: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121413950227884&w=4 In function _cpu_up, the panic happens when calling __raw_notifier_call_chain at the second time. Kernel doesn't panic when calling it at the first time. If just say because of nr_cpu_ids, that's not right. By checking the source code, I found that function do_boot_cpu is the culprit. Consider below call chain: _cpu_up=>__cpu_up=>smp_ops.cpu_up=>native_cpu_up=>do_boot_cpu. So do_boot_cpu is called in the end. In do_boot_cpu, if boot_error==true, cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_possible_map) is executed. So later on, when _cpu_up calls __raw_notifier_call_chain at the second time to report CPU_UP_CANCELED, because this cpu is already cleared from cpu_possible_map, get_cpu_sysdev returns NULL. Many resources are related to cpu_possible_map, so it's better not to change it. Below patch against 2.6.26-rc7 fixes it by removing the bit clearing in cpu_possible_map. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>