From: Shaohua Li Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:54:49 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] variable overflow after hundreds round of hotplug CPU X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~56704^2~264 X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d92de65cab5980c16d4a1c326c1ef9a591892883;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git [PATCH] variable overflow after hundreds round of hotplug CPU I'm doing the cpu hotplug stress test and found a variable ('ready') is overflow after several hundreds rounds of cpu hotplug. Here is a fix. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/head.S b/arch/i386/kernel/head.S index e966fc8c44c4..4477bb107098 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/head.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/head.S @@ -299,7 +299,6 @@ is386: movl $2,%ecx # set MP movl %eax,%cr0 call check_x87 - incb ready lgdt cpu_gdt_descr lidt idt_descr ljmp $(__KERNEL_CS),$1f @@ -316,8 +315,9 @@ is386: movl $2,%ecx # set MP lldt %ax cld # gcc2 wants the direction flag cleared at all times #ifdef CONFIG_SMP - movb ready, %cl - cmpb $1,%cl + movb ready, %cl + movb $1, ready + cmpb $0,%cl je 1f # the first CPU calls start_kernel # all other CPUs call initialize_secondary call initialize_secondary