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Bogus "APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached" messages

Message ID alpine.DEB.2.20.1610071549330.19804@nanos (mailing list archive)
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Thomas Gleixner Oct. 7, 2016, 1:55 p.m. UTC 
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2016.10.06 at 13:52 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > On 2016.10.06 at 12:48 +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 13:27:37 +0200
> > > Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On current trunk I get during boot:
> > > > 
> > > > [    0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached.  Processor 4/0x84 ignored.
> > > > [    0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached.  Processor 5/0x85 ignored.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't think these messages make much sense on a 4-core machine.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Four cores with or without hyperthreading ?
> > 
> > Without. This is a rather old AMD machine (AMD Phenom II X4 955).

That's due to the recent cpuid -> nodeid changes. The patch below should
fix it.

Thanks,

	tglx

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Comments

Markus Trippelsdorf Oct. 7, 2016, 2:09 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 2016.10.07 at 15:55 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > On 2016.10.06 at 13:52 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > On 2016.10.06 at 12:48 +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 13:27:37 +0200
> > > > Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On current trunk I get during boot:
> > > > > 
> > > > > [    0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached.  Processor 4/0x84 ignored.
> > > > > [    0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached.  Processor 5/0x85 ignored.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I don't think these messages make much sense on a 4-core machine.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Four cores with or without hyperthreading ?
> > > 
> > > Without. This is a rather old AMD machine (AMD Phenom II X4 955).
> 
> That's due to the recent cpuid -> nodeid changes. The patch below should
> fix it.

Indeed it does. Thanks for the quick fix.
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index f266b8a92a9e..88c657b057e2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -2128,9 +2128,11 @@  int __generic_processor_info(int apicid, int version, bool enabled)
 	if (num_processors >= nr_cpu_ids) {
 		int thiscpu = max + disabled_cpus;
 
-		pr_warning(
-			"APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of %i reached."
-			"  Processor %d/0x%x ignored.\n", max, thiscpu, apicid);
+		if (enabled) {
+			pr_warning("APIC: NR_CPUS/possible_cpus limit of %i "
+				   "reached. Processor %d/0x%x ignored.\n",
+				   max, thiscpu, apicid);
+		}
 
 		disabled_cpus++;
 		return -EINVAL;