I'm seeing a kernel panic on an ES7000-600 when booting in virtual wire
mode. The panic happens because smp_read_mpc() is passed a physical
address, and it should be virtual. I tested the attached patch on the
ES7000-600 and on a 2 cpu Dell box, and saw no problems on either.
Signed-off-by: Dan Yeisley <dan.yeisley@unisys.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Read the physical hardware table. Anything here will
* override the defaults.
*/
- if (!smp_read_mpc((void *)mpf->mpf_physptr)) {
+ if (!smp_read_mpc(phys_to_virt(mpf->mpf_physptr))) {
smp_found_config = 0;
printk(KERN_ERR "BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!...\n");
printk(KERN_ERR "... disabling SMP support. (tell your hw vendor)\n");