RE: Linux 2.4.19ac3rc3 on IBM x330/x340 SMP - "ps" time skew

[David Luyer]

> > Possibly because show_cpuinfo() in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c prints
> > directly out of phys_proc_id as at the time it's called, but
> > smpboot.c declates phys_proc_id as __initdata (either that, or
> > phys_proc_id is actually zero for both CPUs?).
> 
> The former is the problem. Thanks for spotting it. As to the text
> string, I'll have a chat with Ulrich about it and see what he thinks

The former and the latter possibly: the only assignment I see for
phys_proc_id is when hyperthreading is happening (in fact, requires
all of X86_FEATURE_HT, !disable_x86_ht and smp_num_siblings > 1);
down the end of kernel/setup.c init_intel().

David.