linux-kernel - Re: only a single core (out of 8) initialized

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Date:	Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:29:33 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: only a single core (out of 8) initialized

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:52:36 -0700 (PDT) david@...g.hm wrote:

> this is 2.6.30-rc7

Were any earlier kernels OK?

>  with a patch added to debug a nv sata driver 
> incompatibility with the Intel SSDs on a tyan motherboard
> 
> on one system it sees all 8 cores, on the other system it only initializes 
> one core.
> 
> can anyone help me spot what's going wrong in the one that's only seeing a 
> single core? If I'm reading things correctly it's seeing both sockets for 
> the NUMA setup, but then only initializing one core on the first socket.

good:
	SMP: Allowing 8 CPUs, 4 hotplug CPUs

bad:	
	SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs

perhaps due to
	ACPI: No APIC-table, disabling MPS

You could have a poke around in arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c() and find
out what happened here.  I'd be suspecting this code triggered:

        /* no processor from mptable or madt */
        if (!num_processors)
                num_processors = 1;

because ACPI doesn't like that board.

Did you look into updating the BIOS?

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