Re: Kernel 6.9 regression: X86: Bogus messages from topology detection

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri May 31 2024 - 07:07:22 EST


On Fri, May 31 2024 at 10:16, Christian Heusel wrote:
> On 24/05/31 10:13AM, Christian Heusel wrote:
> [ 0.046127] TSC deadline timer available
> [ 0.046129] CPU topo: Max. logical packages: 1
> [ 0.046129] CPU topo: Max. logical dies: 1
> [ 0.046129] CPU topo: Max. dies per package: 1
> [ 0.046131] CPU topo: Max. threads per core: 2
> [ 0.046132] CPU topo: Num. cores per package: 10
> [ 0.046132] CPU topo: Num. threads per package: 12
> [ 0.046132] CPU topo: Allowing 12 present CPUs plus 0 hotplug CPUs

This looks correct.

> [ 0.117308] smpboot: x86: Booting SMP configuration:
> [ 0.117308] .... node #0, CPUs: #2 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11
> [ 0.009676] [Firmware Bug]: CPU4: Topology domain 1 shift 7 != 6

So this means that the E-Cores have a different topology information for
the CORE shift value than the P-Cores which is definitely wrong.

Let's see what cpuid -r reports.

Thanks,

tglx