Bug 455427

Summary: x86: don't call MP_processor_info for disabled cpu (64bit)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Prarit Bhargava <prarit>
Component: kernelAssignee: Prarit Bhargava <prarit>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version: 5.3   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Prarit Bhargava 2008-07-15 14:09:02 UTC 
Backport

Gitweb:    
http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8ccab29ca8c441ae00d878d2f0000275f430f8a5
Commit:     8ccab29ca8c441ae00d878d2f0000275f430f8a5
Parent:     86c9835b46605fb29a3c30c6cc344d9df49e54a3
Author:     Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 27 23:55:28 2008 +0300
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo>
CommitDate: Thu Apr 17 17:41:32 2008 +0200

    x86: don't call MP_processor_info for disabled cpu (64bit)
    
    Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy>
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo>
Comment 1 Prarit Bhargava 2008-07-15 14:09:02 UTC 
Created attachment 311831 [details]
Upstream fix for this issue
Comment 2 Prarit Bhargava 2008-07-15 22:57:18 UTC 
Created attachment 311891 [details]
RHEL5 fix for this issue
Comment 3 Prarit Bhargava 2008-07-15 23:02:45 UTC 
While resolving this issue I noticed a minor bug with the declaration of
disabled_cpus.  It should be declared as __cpuinitdata, not __initdata.

P.
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2008-07-15 23:42:30 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 6 Don Zickus 2008-07-23 18:56:12 UTC 
in kernel-2.6.18-99.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 20:25:50 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html