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SubjectRe: 4.5.0+ panic when setup loop device
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 05:11:54AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 10:52 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > Andreas; Borislav said to Cc you since you wrote all this.
> > The issue is that Linux assumes:
> >
> > > nr_logical_cpus = nr_cores * nr_siblings
>
> It also seems to now assume that if SMT is possible, it's enabled.
>
> Below is my 8 socket DL980 G7, which has SMT turned off for RT testing,
> booting NOPREEMPT master tuned for maximum bloat ala distro and getting
> confused by me telling it (as always) nr_cpus=64. Bad juju ensues.

Ah, did you actually disable HT in the BIOS, or just skip the HT
enumeration by saying nr_cpus=64 (knowing that all the siblings are
last)?

In any case, Thomas has a clue and I'm going to test, but 4 socket
machine takes forever to boot, so might be a few minutes :/

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