[Crash-utility] [PATCH] task, fix: active_set[NR_CPUS-1] could wrongly be chosen as panic task
Dave Anderson
anderson at redhat.com
Mon Dec 12 14:50:16 UTC 2011
----- Original Message -----
> Hello Dave,
>
> I found this when investigating how crash determines panic task.
>
> Honestly I don't have vmcore reproducing this bug but which could happen when
> there're 4096 online CPUS.
>
> Thanks.
> HATAYAMA, Daisuke
It's surprising that nobody has bumped into this before -- it would
select that task whenever a dumpfile is taken on a system which
actually has a real cpu count that is equal to its per-architecture
NR_CPUS value.
Thanks Daisuke -- queued for crash-6.0.2.
Dave
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