Re: [kernel 3.13.0-06058-g2d08cd0] Strange ACPI error messages

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-01-25T16:18:24Z

On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, January 25, 2014 02:53:24 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday, January 25, 2014 11:03:09 AM Jörg Otte wrote:
> > > Kernel 3.13.0-06058-g2d08cd0 displays following errors on the console:
> > >
> > > ACPI: \_PR_.CPU4: failed to get CPU APIC ID.
> > > ACPI: \_PR_.CPU5: failed to get CPU APIC ID.
> > > ACPI: \_PR_.CPU6: failed to get CPU APIC ID.
> > > ACPI: \_PR_.CPU7: failed to get CPU APIC ID.
> > >
> > > I don't have CPUs 4..7! Error messages regarding not existing
> > > CPUs should not be displayed.
> > > kernel 3.13.0-05617-g3aacd62 and before did'nt show this messages.
> > >
> > > This is a regression. I never saw this messages before.
> >
> > Does your system show any other suspicious symptoms or are you worried about
> > those messages only?
>
> Gerry, this is your commit b981513f806d (ACPI / scan: bail out early if failed
> to parse APIC ID for CPU). Apparently, the BIOS has room for 4 CPUs more than
> there actually are in the system. Maybe we can reduce the log level of those
> messages to avoid ringing bells unnecessarily?

It is standard practice (at least in SuperMicro boxes, but I've also seen it
elsewhere) for the BIOS to have ACPI tables mentioning all cores supported
by the biggest core-count CPU topology possible by the motherboard. The
cores you don't have are reported as if they were hotpluggable but absent,
even if they will *never* show up at runtime. Meh.

So yes, such warnings will get annoying *very* quickly.

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Henrique Holschuh