From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 19:45:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D8D16A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:45:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net (mail4.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E781F43D45 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:45:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 13636 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2004 19:45:05 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 15 Nov 2004 19:45:05 -0000 Received: from [10.50.41.235] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAFJj0s5076045; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:45:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:04:37 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20041111212920.30198.qmail@web54609.mail.yahoo.com> <4193E183.3000406@error404.nls.net> In-Reply-To: <4193E183.3000406@error404.nls.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411151404.37030.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: "Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra" cc: Nik Azim Azam cc: Stephan Uphoff Subject: Re: number of CPUs and IPI panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:45:06 -0000 On Thursday 11 November 2004 05:02 pm, Ketrien I. Saihr-Kesenchedra wrote: > Nik Azim Azam wrote: > >--- Stephan Uphoff wrote: > >> OK - now we have to play the thousand questions game > >> > >>;-) > >> > >>This happens after the system is up? > >>Can you send me the startup messages (With verbose > >>enabled)? Are there known issues with other operating systems? > >>Do you have a serial console / serial line for gdb / firewire for > >> debugging ? > >> > >>If I read your first posting correctly you have 6 pentium II overdrive > >> processors in your system (overdrive = PII with PPRO pinout). > >>Can you supply information about the vendor / chipset of your system? > > We have a very big problem here though; we're detecting 7 processors. > The ALR has a LOT of on-board logic. Handling it is very tricky; these > things required a special version of Windows NT or SCO, as I recall. We > should only be detecting 6 CPUs; we may be erroneously accepting part of > the bridging logic as a processor. (ISTR that the CPU board bridge > appears very similar to a processor.) I think an mptable dump would be > very helpful here; I'm wondering if we're not letting the board fake us > out with bridge logic presenting as a processor. It's only finding 6 processors, but the local APIC IDs are 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6. I'm guessing that the I/O APIC is using APIC ID 3. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org