On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:06:28PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> pci device ensure sysdata initialised
>
> [Ok, here is a patch to ensure sysdata is valid for all busses.]
>
> We have been seeing panic's on NUMA systems in pci_call_probe() in
> 2.6.15-rc5-mm2 and -mm3. It seems that some changes have occured
> to the meaning of the 'sysdata' for a device such that it is no
> longer just an integer containing the node, it is now a structure
> containing the node and other data. However, it seems that we do not
> always initialise this sysdata before we probe the device.
Yeah, but this patch is just papering over that fact :(
In fact, you will not put these devices on the proper node with this
patch, right? So I don't think it is what you want.
thanks,
greg k-h
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