Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:07:02 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27rc1 cannot boot more than 8CPUs
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* Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> Shall this be put back so that it'll show the message?
>>> -       if (def_to_bigsmp && apicid > 8) {
>>> -               printk(KERN_WARNING
>>> -                       "More than 8 CPUs detected - skipping them.\n"
>>> -                       "Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH and 
> CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP.\n");
>>> -       }
>>
>> could you post the full dmesg? And the modified patch that you've tested
>> to both have 8 CPUs without bigsmp and which also shows the printk?
>>
>>        Ingo
>>
>
> Attached. cpu.8
>    CONFIG_X86_32=y
>    CONFIG_X86_PC=y
>    CONFIG_X86=y
>    CONFIG_NR_CPUS=8
>
> Attached. cpu.16
>    CONFIG_X86_32=y
>    CONFIG_X86_PC=y
>    CONFIG_X86=y
>    CONFIG_NR_CPUS=16
>
> Attached cpu.16.big
>    CONFIG_X86_32=y
>    CONFIG_X86=y
>    CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH=y
>    CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP=y
>    # CONFIG_X86_PC is not set
>    CONFIG_NR_CPUS=16
>
> Attached cpu.16.nobig (same as cpu.16 except with modifed patch)
>    CONFIG_X86_32=y
>    CONFIG_X86_PC=y
>    CONFIG_X86=y
>    CONFIG_NR_CPUS=16
>
> Attached is the modified patch to make the warning appears. It's 
> Yinghai's patch modified to just display the error and continue to 
> boot.

thanks. To make sure it's all sorted out you might want to boot today's 
tip/master and check whether it just does the right thing by default. 
(it really should)

	Ingo
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