linux-kernel - Re: [Patch1/2] fix wrong proc cpuinfo on x64

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Message-ID: <20071106183153.GC15369@alberich.amd.com>
Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:31:53 +0100
From:	"Andreas Herrmann" <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
To:	"Zou Nan hai" <nanhai.zou@...el.com>
cc:	"LKML" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch1/2] fix wrong proc cpuinfo on x64

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:25:39PM +0800, Zou Nan hai wrote:
> 
> in 2.6.24-rc1 kernel, 
> The /proc/cpuinfo display is wrong.
> 
> One issue is every processor id appears to be 0.
> 
> That is because smp_store_cpu_info will set cpuinfo_x86->cpu_index
> to cpu id then call identify_cpu
> identify_cpu will call early_identify_cpu which set c->cpu_index back to
> 0.

This issue should already be fixed with this patch

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119392088227245


Regards,

Andreas

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