From: Lin Chen <linx.z.c...@intel.com> We hit a panic while doing cpu hotplug test. <0>[ 627.982857] Kernel panic - not syncing: smp_callin: CPU1 started up but did not get a callout! <0>[ 627.982864] <4>[ 627.982876] Pid: 0, comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G ... <4>[ 627.982883] Call Trace: <4>[ 627.982903] [<c18f2977>] panic+0x66/0x16c <4>[ 627.982918] [<c12234cc>] ? default_get_apic_id+0x1c/0x40 <4>[ 627.982931] [<c18ef96d>] start_secondary+0xda/0x252
During BSP bootup AP, it is possible that BSP be preempted before finishing STARTUP sequence of AP(set cpu_callout_mask) which maybe cause AP busy wait for it. At present, AP will wait for 2 seconds then panic. This patch let AP waits for 60 seconds at maximum. Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zh...@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chen LinX <linx.z.c...@intel.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c index 7c5a8c3..447aa3b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c @@ -162,9 +162,9 @@ static void __cpuinit smp_callin(void) */ /* - * Waiting 2s total for startup (udelay is not yet working) + * Waiting 60s total for startup (udelay is not yet working) */ - timeout = jiffies + 2*HZ; + timeout = jiffies + 60*HZ; while (time_before(jiffies, timeout)) { /* * Has the boot CPU finished it's STARTUP sequence? -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/