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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [OPW][PATCH v2] Support added to read system
 information from BIOS and verify it with Xen.
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:13:44 +0100
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To: Rita Sinha <rita.sinha89@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 11:40 +0530, Rita Sinha wrote:
> This patch is in response to
> http://secure-web.cisco.com/1YB1awPInStO2hrLa12KgfqobN6IDb1NLSm9NDTo00PshSMkAjWOlHjGJGcermXIpIZUvx3-fqRwDbSnhthheWCKKPOn5XvXx826jIO9jEhbTjUrPXeSn7NTVUCES71yLs1nX_OAbMCmg1MPlywqp3SUGT6O973O-mDSzQty_mYU/http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.xenproject.org%2Fwiki%2FOutreach_Program_Projects#CPU.2FRAM.2FPCI_diagram_tool
> project for applying to OPW-Round9.It adds support for reading system
> architecture information from BIOS and verifies it with Xen via xl toolstack.
> 
> ---
>  dmidecode.pl | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Which git tree is this against? It certainly wouldn't be correct to dump
this into the toplevel of xen.git.

>  1 file changed, 61 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 dmidecode.pl
> 
> diff --git a/dmidecode.pl b/dmidecode.pl
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..8556cfd
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/dmidecode.pl
> @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
> +#!/usr/bin/perl
> +
> +# dmidecode.pl - a script to read the system architecture information
> +# directly from the BIOS and verify with xen.  Only for Linux.
> +#
> +# Rita Sinha (rita.sinha89@gmail.com)
> +# OPW Program-Round9
> +# 21/10/14
> +
> +`id -u` == 0 || die "must be run as root";
> +
> +open(DmiFh, "/usr/sbin/dmidecode |") or
> +  die "problem running dmidecode";
> +$DmiNumProcs = 0;
> +$DmiNumSockets = 0;
> +while(<DmiFh>)
> +  {
> +    next unless /Central Processor/;
> +    # We've found a processor (or at least a socket), keep going
> +    while(<DmiFh>)
> +	{
> +	  # Keep walking the dmidecode output to find out if
> +	  # the socket has a processor in it.
> +	  last if /^Handle/;
> +	  next unless /Status/;
> +	  $DmiNumSockets += 1;
> +	  /Populated/ and $DmiNumProcs += 1;
> +	  last;
> +	}
> +  }
> +close DmiFh;
> +
> +open(CpuInfoFh, "/proc/cpuinfo") || die "failed to open /proc/cpuinfo!";
> +$CpuInfoNumProcs = 0;
> +while(<CpuInfoFh>)
> +  {
> +    next unless /^processor.*:/;
> +    ($CpuInfoNumProcs) += (/^processor.*: (\d+)/);
> +  }
> +close CpuInfoFh;
> +
> +my @command = `xl list`;
> +my @xen_values = split(' ', $command[1]);
> +
> +
> +if ( $DmiNumProcs != $CpuInfoNumProcs )
> +  {
> +    print "Warning: dmidecode reports $DmiNumProcs processors, kernel reports $CpuInfoNumProcs processors.\n";
> +  }
> +
> +if ( $DmiNumProcs != $DmiNumSockets )
> +  {
> +    print "Info: dmidecode reports $DmiNumSockets cpu sockets, but only $DmiNumProcs processors.\n";
> +  }
> +
> +if ( $DmiNumProcs != @xen_values[3] )
> +  {
> +    print "Warning: dmidecode reports $DmiNumProcs processors, xen reports $xenCpus processors\n";
> +  }
> +
> +