Re: [patch] CONFIG_NR_CPUS

[Andrew Morton]

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> On Jun 06, 2002  12:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > But the arch maintainers should test one case please - x86
> > was locking up at boot on quad CPU with NR_CPUS=2.  Others may do
> > the same.
> 
> Just a guess, but this could be because the two CPUs chosen for the
> boot sequence are not physically numbered 0 and 1, so they are
> overwriting the bounds of the per-CPU arrays.

Well the code was assuming that the number of physical
CPUs was always <= NR_CPUS unless max_cpus had been
specified.  I fixed that in the patch.

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