Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: Linux 2.4.19ac3rc3 on IBM x330/x340 SMP - "ps" time skew | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 31 Jul 2002 16:04:51 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 14:38, David Luyer wrote: > 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.
Currently yes - it got broken during the Summit rearrangements
> 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?).
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
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