We have some systems we are upgrading from FreeBSD 6.1 to FreeBSD 6.3.
These are Dell PowerEdge servers. The one I'm working on now is a 1950.
Under 6.1 it booted into SMP mode no problem. Under 6.3, with no changes
made in the BIOS settings, it does not. Here is the start of the dmesg:
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988,
1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The
FreeBSD Foundation.
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #0: Tue Jun 17 10:27:52
EDT 2008
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMPKERNEL
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
quality 0
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (2995.51-MHz
686-class CPU)
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf64 Stepping = 4
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel:
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel:
Features2=0xe4bd<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,CNXT-ID,CX16,xTPR,PDCM>
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: Cores per package: 2
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: Logical CPUs per core: 2
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: real memory = 2147123200 (2047 MB)
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: avail memory = 2096021504 (1998 MB)
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: kbd1 at kbdmux0
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212,
RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1
(Jun 17 2008 10:27:34)
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: cpu0 on motherboard
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on
motherboard
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 21 Entries>
on motherboard
Jun 17 11:03:26 master1 kernel: pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
And here's mptable up to the end of the CPU report:
===============================================================================
MPTable
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MP Floating Pointer Structure:
location: BIOS
physical address: 0x000fe710
signature: '_MP_'
length: 16 bytes
version: 1.4
checksum: 0x91
mode: Virtual Wire
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MP Config Table Header:
physical address: 0x000f0000
signature: 'PCMP'
base table length: 796
version: 1.4
checksum: 0x7b
OEM ID: 'DELL '
Product ID: 'PE 01B3 '
OEM table pointer: 0x00000000
OEM table size: 0
entry count: 88
local APIC address: 0xfee00000
extended table length: 0
extended table checksum: 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MP Config Base Table Entries:
--
Processors: APIC ID Version State Family Model Step Flags
0 0x14 BSP, usable 15 6 4
0xbfebfbff
2 0x14 AP, usable 15 6 4
0xbfebfbff
6 0x14 AP, usable 15 6 4
0xbfebfbff
4 0x14 AP, usable 15 6 4
0xbfebfbff
After boot we have this:
kern.smp.maxcpus: 16
kern.smp.active: 0
kern.smp.disabled: 0
kern.smp.cpus: 1
kern.smp.forward_signal_enabled: 1
kern.smp.forward_roundrobin_enabled: 1
Any clues as to why SMP isn't starting? We've double checked that we
have both 'options SMP' and 'device apic' in the running kernel.
I've done a lot of googling, and have come up with nothing that seems
relevant to our situation. The most puzzling thing is that this worked
fine under 6.1 on these same machines....
--David
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