Description of problem: Executing a command like this: numactl --cpubind <N> --membind <N> <command> on an interleaved system produces the attached register dump and the system hangs: you can ping it but that's about it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.18-1.1 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. On an interleaved IA64 system (I used an rx8640, but I have no reason to believe it's any different on an rx8620 or a Superdome), say numactl --cpubind 0 --membind 0 ls 2. 3. Actual results: System hangs. See attachment for console output. Expected results: Command should return an error. Additional info: Lee Schermerhorn tried a 2.6.22-rc2-mm1 kernel on the same machine - it behaves properly: the command returns an error as it should and nothing bad happens.
Created attachment 155719 [details] Console output
Nick, Was it just the kernel that was different between what you tried and what worked for Lee or was it a different version of the numactl cmd line util also? - Doug
Doug, it was just the kernel. Everything else stayed the same.
I have verified that this is already fixed in the latest RHEL5.1 kernels. Appears to be a dup of 229084. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229084 ***