Subject: powerpc: Don't crash on cell with 2 BEs when !CONFIG_NUMA From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt The SPU code will crash if CONFIG_NUMA is not set and SPUs are found on a non-0 node. This workaround will ignore those SPEs and just print an message in the kernel log. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_base.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_base.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_base.c @@ -781,6 +781,17 @@ static int __init create_spu(struct devi if (!spu) goto out; + spu->node = find_spu_node_id(spe); + if (spu->node >= MAX_NUMNODES) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "SPE %s on node %d ignored," + " node number too big\n", spe->full_name, spu->node); + printk(KERN_WARNING "Check if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled.\n"); + return -ENODEV; + } + spu->nid = of_node_to_nid(spe); + if (spu->nid == -1) + spu->nid = 0; + ret = spu_map_device(spu, spe); /* try old method */ if (ret) @@ -788,10 +799,6 @@ static int __init create_spu(struct devi if (ret) goto out_free; - spu->node = find_spu_node_id(spe); - spu->nid = of_node_to_nid(spe); - if (spu->nid == -1) - spu->nid = 0; ret = spu_map_interrupts(spu, spe); if (ret) ret = spu_map_interrupts_old(spu, spe);