Success! This resolved the issue. Thanks Thomas!
Rick On 05/17/18 08:36, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Rick, > > On Wed, 16 May 2018, Rick Warner wrote: > >> I've attached the dmesg output with the kernel parameter and supplied patch. > Thanks for providing the data. I think I know what's wrong here. Does the > patch below fix your problem? > > While you test, I go looking for a big brown paperbag. > > Thanks, > > tglx > > 8<---------------- > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_cluster.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_cluster.c > @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static void init_x2apic_ldr(void) > goto update; > } > cmsk = cluster_hotplug_mask; > + cmsk->clusterid = cluster; > cluster_hotplug_mask = NULL; > update: > this_cpu_write(cluster_masks, cmsk);

