Re: 2.6.12 hangs on boot

Can you please test if this patch fixes it?

-Andi


Don't compare linux processor index with APICID

Fixes boot up lockups on some machines where CPU apic ids
don't start with 0

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <redacted>

Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
===================================================================

--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c

@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static __cpuinit void sync_master(void *
 {
 	unsigned long flags, i;
 
-	if (smp_processor_id() != boot_cpu_id)
+	if (smp_processor_id() != 0)
 		return;
 
 	go[MASTER] = 0;