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From: "David Luyer" <david@luyer.net>
To: "'Dana Lacoste'" <dana.lacoste@peregrine.com>
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Subject: RE: Linux 2.4.19ac3rc3 on IBM x330/x340 SMP - "ps" time skew
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:38:41 +1000
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Dana Lacoste wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 13:59, David Luyer wrote:
> >   printf("%d\n", sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF));
> > }
> > luyer@praxis8:~$ ./cpus
> > 4
> 
> I ran your test program on a Compaq DL360 and an IBM x330
> and both showed '2' for the CPU count (2.4.18 stock, glibc 2.2.3)
> 
> Just a point of reference to help narrow the problem area down :)

Yes, the problem is in the -ac train only.  It's the "processor id"
field that has been added to /proc/cpuinfo which is confusing libc's
way of counting CPUs.

That's a libc bug.  But there's also a kernel bug with that field
it appears.

The kernel bug: the "processor id" fields are both printing zero.

Possibly because show_cpuinfo() in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c prints
directly out of phys_proc_id as at the time it's called, but
smpboot.c declates phys_proc_id as __initdata (either that, or
phys_proc_id is actually zero for both CPUs?).

David.
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