x86, amd: Fix panic on AMD CPU family 0x15
[The mainline kernel doesn't have this problem. Commit "(23588c38) x86, amd: Add support for CPUID topology extension of AMD CPUs" removed the family check. But 2.6.32.y needs to be fixed.] This CPU family check is not required -- existence of the NodeId MSR is indicated by a CPUID feature flag which is already checked in amd_fixup_dcm() -- and it needlessly prevents amd_fixup_dcm() to be called for newer AMD CPUs. In worst case this can lead to a panic in the scheduler code for AMD family 0x15 multi-node AMD CPUs. I just have a picture of VGA console output so I can't copy-and-paste it herein, but the call stack of such a panic looked like: do_divide_error ... find_busiest_group run_rebalance_domains ... apic_timer_interrupt ... cpu_idle The mainline kernel doesn't have this problem. Commit "(23588c38) x86, amd: Add support for CPUID topology extension of AMD CPUs" removed the family check. But 2.6.32.y needs to be fixed. Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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