Patch to tweak FreeBSD CPU IDs in the SMP support

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 5 10:44:55 PST 2004


On Wednesday 03 November 2004 01:49 pm, John Baldwin wrote:
> I would appreciate it if folks with SMP machines could please test the
> patch below.  It should ensure among other things that the boot processor
> will now always have a FreeBSD cpu ID of 0 and that the FreeBSD cpu IDs
> will now be allocate independent of the PAL IDs from the HWPRB.  I'm
> especially interested in reports from machines where the PAL IDs don't
> match the CPU IDs.  (My one SMP alpha box always seems to boot from CPU 0
> and so the IDs match up so I can't tell if I've accidentally gotten an id
> variable backwards somewhere.)

This patch should apply directly to 5.x as well as HEAD if that will make it 
easier for folks to test btw.

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