RE: Linux 2.4.19ac3rc3 on IBM x330/x340 SMP - "ps" time skew

David Luyer (david@luyer.net)
Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:57:09 +1000


> > 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?).
>
> The former is the problem. Thanks for spotting it. As to the text
> string, I'll have a chat with Ulrich about it and see what he thinks

The former and the latter possibly: the only assignment I see for
phys_proc_id is when hyperthreading is happening (in fact, requires
all of X86_FEATURE_HT, !disable_x86_ht and smp_num_siblings > 1);
down the end of kernel/setup.c init_intel().

David.

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