linux-kernel - Re: smpboot seems to be confused on dual EPYC system

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Message-ID: <20180527231636.GE6349@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 01:16:36 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: smpboot seems to be confused on dual EPYC system

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 12:51:17AM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> 128CPUs for sure not possible and for sure no way to have '2' CPUs installed.

With that last "'2' CPUs" you mean, two physical processors and thus two
sockets, right?

In any case, this info is what we've gotten from the BIOS so if that
BIOS tells us this way...

Again, you don't see any other issues besides the misrepresenting of max
packages or?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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