On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> >
> > I've two boxes with Dual Xeons 1.8 GHz and HT option enabled in BIOS. When
> > I boot 2.4.20-rc2 with default arguments the kernel detects 4 processors and
> > also reports 4 processors in /proc/cpuinfo wiht the "ht" feature.
> >
> > However, if I boot with the "noht" option (wich I believed turned off HT
> > and therefore only two processors should be available), the kernel still
> > detects 4 processors, _but_ now the "ht" feature in /proc/cpuinfo is not
> > there. Is this the intention of the "noht" option ?
>
> No, the intention of the "noht" option is as you believed, and it used to
> work that way. I looked at latest sourcec, didn't see anything obviously
> wrong. Sorry, but I don't have a suitable HT machine to check at present.
>
> > If so, are there any
> > options available to turn off HT support in the kernel completely, so that
> > I don't have to go into the BIOS to turn it off ?
> >
> > If you want to I can provide the dmesg output and .config.
> >
> > I think this issue is not just related to 2.4.20-rc2, but earlier kernels
> > aswell.
>
> Could others check and report if 2.4.20-rc2 "noht" works for them or not?
>
Thanks for your reply Hugh,
After digging into it a bit, I _think_ I know what happens. When the
machine is bootet with default parameters, the processors are detected in
the ACPI table, and the MP table search is skipped :
Linux version 2.4.20-rc2 (root@puma1.office.scali.no) (gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #4 SMP Sat Nov 16 14:06:13 CET 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003fefc000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fefc000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff00000 - 000000003ff80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff80000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f7030
hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f8000 reserved twice.
hm, page 0009f000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000a0000 reserved twice.
On node 0 totalpages: 262016
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 32640 pages.
ACPI: Searched entire block, no RSDP was found.
ACPI: RSDP located at physical address c00f7090
RSD PTR v0 [PTLTD ]
__va_range(0x3fef84e0, 0x68): idx=8 mapped at ffff6000
ACPI table found: RSDT v1 [PTLTD RSDT 1540.0]
__va_range(0x3fefbe78, 0x24): idx=8 mapped at ffff6000
__va_range(0x3fefbe78, 0x74): idx=8 mapped at ffff6000
ACPI table found: FACP v1 [INTEL K_CANYON 1540.0]
__va_range(0x3fefbeec, 0x24): idx=8 mapped at ffff6000
__va_range(0x3fefbeec, 0x9c): idx=8 mapped at ffff6000
ACPI table found: APIC v1 [PTLTD APIC 1540.0]
__va_range(0x3fefbeec, 0x9c): idx=8 mapped at ffff6000
LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0000] id[0x0] enabled[1])
CPU 0 (0x0000) enabledProcessor #0 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16
LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0001] id[0x6] enabled[1])
CPU 1 (0x0600) enabledProcessor #6 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16
LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0002] id[0x1] enabled[1])
CPU 2 (0x0100) enabledProcessor #1 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16
LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0003] id[0x7] enabled[1])
CPU 3 (0x0700) enabledProcessor #7 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 16
IOAPIC (id[0x2] address[0xfec00000] global_irq_base[0x0])
IOAPIC (id[0x3] address[0xfec80000] global_irq_base[0x18])
IOAPIC (id[0x4] address[0xfec80400] global_irq_base[0x30])
INT_SRC_OVR (bus[0] irq[0x0] global_irq[0x2] polarity[0x1] trigger[0x1])
INT_SRC_OVR (bus[0] irq[0x9] global_irq[0x9] polarity[0x1] trigger[0x3])
LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x0000] polarity[0x1] trigger[0x1] lint[0x1])
LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x0001] polarity[0x1] trigger[0x1] lint[0x1])
LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x0002] polarity[0x1] trigger[0x1] lint[0x1])
LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x0003] polarity[0x1] trigger[0x1] lint[0x1])
4 CPUs total
Local APIC address fee00000
__va_range(0x3fefbf88, 0x24): idx=8 mapped at ffff6000
__va_range(0x3fefbf88, 0x28): idx=8 mapped at ffff6000
ACPI table found: BOOT v1 [PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 1540.0]
__va_range(0x3fefbfb0, 0x24): idx=8 mapped at ffff6000
__va_range(0x3fefbfb0, 0x50): idx=8 mapped at ffff6000
ACPI table found: SPCR v1 [PTLTD $UCRTBL$ 1540.0]
Enabling the CPU's according to the ACPI table
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: Product ID: Kings Canyon APIC at: 0xFEE00000
I/O APIC #2 Version 32 at 0xFEC00000.
I/O APIC #3 Version 32 at 0xFEC80000.
I/O APIC #4 Version 32 at 0xFEC80400.
Processors: 4
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ console=ttyS0,9600n8 nmi_watchdog=1
[snip]
However, when I boot the machine with the "noht" option the ACPI table
search is skipped, _but_ it still finds 4 processors in the MP table :
Linux version 2.4.20-rc2 (root@puma1.office.scali.no) (gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #4 SMP Sat Nov 16 14:06:13 CET 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003fefc000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fefc000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff00000 - 000000003ff80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff80000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f7030
hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f8000 reserved twice.
hm, page 0009f000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000a0000 reserved twice.
On node 0 totalpages: 262016
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 32640 pages.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: Product ID: Kings Canyon APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 20
Processor #6 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 20
Processor #1 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 20
Processor #7 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 20
I/O APIC #2 Version 32 at 0xFEC00000.
I/O APIC #3 Version 32 at 0xFEC80000.
I/O APIC #4 Version 32 at 0xFEC80400.
Processors: 4
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ console=ttyS0,9600n8 nmi_watchdog=1 noht
Since the HT feature is enabled in the BIOS it seems normal to me that 4
processors are reported both in the MP table and in the ACPI table.
Shouldn't the 'noht' option handle this ?
I have two of these machines and can assist in testing out patches etc.
Regards,
-- Steffen Persvold | Scali AS mailto:sp@scali.com | http://www.scali.com Tel: (+47) 2262 8950 | Olaf Helsets vei 6 Fax: (+47) 2262 8951 | N0621 Oslo, NORWAY- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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