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

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Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 01:25:49 +0200
From:   Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...il.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
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

2018-05-28 1:16 GMT+02:00 Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>:
> 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?

Yes.

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

Sure .. not the first time BIOSes lies about things :)

I never said that being an kernel bug I just noticed
something is getting confused.

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

Right no other issues.