linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Limit the number of processor bootup messages

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:11:46 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Limit the number of processor bootup messages

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/2009 12:10 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> The following lines have been removed:
>>>
>>>        CPU: Physical Processor ID:
>>>        CPU: Processor Core ID:
>>>        CPU %d/0x%x -> Node %d
>>
>> please don't.
>>
>
> Why not?
>
> Or, more formally: please state the rationale for keeping them.
>
at least one distribution: SLES 11 mess it up when BSP is from socket
1 instead of socket0

and above message does show kernel think BSP still from socket0, and
other cores in that package are from socket1.

YH
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