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Date:	Sat, 19 Mar 2016 02:31:02 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, peterz@...radead.org, umgwanakikbuti@...il.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/topology: Fix Intel HT disable

Commit-ID:  63d1e995be455ae9196270eb4b789de21afd42ed
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/63d1e995be455ae9196270eb4b789de21afd42ed
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
AuthorDate: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:03:48 +0100
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 10:26:40 +0100

x86/topology: Fix Intel HT disable

As per the comment in the code; due to BIOS it is sometimes impossible to know
if there actually are smp siblings until the machine is fully enumerated. So
we rather overestimate the number of possible packages.

Fixes: 1f12e32f4cd5 ("x86/topology: Create logical package id")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: aherrmann@...e.com
Cc: jencce.kernel@...il.com
Cc: bp@...en8.de
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160318150538.611014173@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 64b669d..81e6a43 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -312,8 +312,21 @@ static void __init smp_init_package_map(void)
 	/*
 	 * Today neither Intel nor AMD support heterogenous systems. That
 	 * might change in the future....
+	 *
+	 * While ideally we'd want '* smp_num_siblings' in the below @ncpus
+	 * computation, this won't actually work since some Intel BIOSes
+	 * report inconsistent HT data when they disable HT.
+	 *
+	 * In particular, they reduce the APIC-IDs to only include the cores,
+	 * but leave the CPUID topology to say there are (2) siblings.
+	 * This means we don't know how many threads there will be until
+	 * after the APIC enumeration.
+	 *
+	 * By not including this we'll sometimes over-estimate the number of
+	 * logical packages by the amount of !present siblings, but this is
+	 * still better than MAX_LOCAL_APIC.
 	 */
-	ncpus = boot_cpu_data.x86_max_cores * smp_num_siblings;
+	ncpus = boot_cpu_data.x86_max_cores;
 	__max_logical_packages = DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_cpu_ids, ncpus);
 
 	/*