Bug 14467

Summary:	Linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096
Product:	Platform Specific/Hardware	Reporter:	Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component:	IA-64	Assignee:	platform_ia-64
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	jeffm
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.32-rc	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	14230

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-10-25 23:29:02 UTC

Subject    : Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096
Submitter  : Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Date       : 2009-10-18 22:28
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125590493116720&w=4
Notify-Also : Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Notify-Also : Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Notify-Also : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Notify-Also : Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Notify-Also : Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Notify-Also : "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.31.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.

Caused by:

commit 34d76c41554a05425613d16efebb3069c4c545f0
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date:   Thu Aug 27 13:08:56 2009 +0200

    sched: Fix division by zero - really

First-Bad-Commit : 34d76c41554a05425613d16efebb3069c4c545f0

Comment 1 Jeff Mahoney 2009-11-16 22:54:49 UTC

This regression was fixed with commits:
403a91b1659cb149dbddc5885f892734ae4542d8
4a6cc4bd32e580722882115d4c8b964d732c11e4

Comment 2 Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-11-16 23:04:29 UTC

Thanks, closing.