On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:28:20PM +0800, Zou Nan hai wrote: > in 2.6.24-rc1 kernel, > The /proc/cpuinfo display is wrong. > > Another issue is that it will display bogus cpus with wrong information > if the kernel is compiled with a big CONFIG_NR_CPU. > > That is because before a cpu in cpu_present_map is up, c->cpu_index of > that cpu is 0. > thus the cpu_online(c->cpu_index) check in show_cpuinfo is invalid.
This issue should already be fixed with that patch http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119394201230954 > This patch will let cpuinfo_op use cpu_online_map instead of > cpu_present_map to iterate cpus. BTW, the problem affects i386 as well. Regards, Andreas -- Operating | AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG, System | Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Germany Research | Register Court Dresden: HRA 4896, General Partner authorized Center | to represent: AMD Saxony LLC (Wilmington, Delaware, US) (OSRC) | General Manager of AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
