Bug 112495

Summary: ASUS P4S800-MX not recognised as SMP motherboard
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Peter Kiem <zordah>
Component: kernelAssignee: Brian Maly <bmaly>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 3.0CC: cpm, petrides, riel
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Description Peter Kiem 2003-12-21 08:38:33 UTC
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Description of problem:
Motherboard: ASUS P4S800-MX
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.66 GHz with 800 MHz FSB and hyperthreading
Memory: 1GB
Hardware Raid card: 3ware 7506-4LP
Drives: 4 x Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80GB 7200 RPM

"Hyperthreading Technology" is enabled in the bios and bios boot
screen shows 2 Pentium 4 processors.

Installed Fedora Core 1 and both processors are recognised and appear
in top and /proc/cpuinfo

Installed RHEL ES 3 and only 1 processor is displayed in top and
/proc/cpuinfo.  Also noted a line "kernel: SMP motherboard not
detected" in /var/log/messages

The installer automatically selected and installed the SMP kernel.


/proc/cpuinfo contains
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 2600.781
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
runqueue        : 0
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmovpat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips        : 5190.45

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.21-4.EL

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check bios for hyperthreading technology enabled
2. Boot computer - Notice 2 processors reported
3. Install RHEL ES 3 via text mode
4. Boot using the default SMP kernel

Actual Results:  One processor listed in top and /proc/cpuinfo
syslog message of "kernel: SMP motherboard not detected"

Expected Results:  Two processors should be able to be seen and used.


Additional info:

Fedora Core 1 had no problems detecting the hyperthreading and
displaying 2 processors on the exact same hardware and bios settings.

Comment 2 Jim Paradis 2004-01-23 21:29:39 UTC
I have a strong suspicion that this is a duplicate of Bug 112025, for
which there is a fix slated for U2.  


Comment 3 Jim Paradis 2004-05-21 19:30:59 UTC
To the original reporter: could you obtain the latest RHEL3 U2 kernel
via RHN and verify that this is indeed fixed?



Comment 4 Peter Kiem 2004-05-23 13:39:34 UTC
Now running 2.4.21-15.ELsmp obtained through up2date

Same deal :(  One CPU detected and the following line 
in /var/log/messages

May 23 23:34:51 caramon kernel: SMP motherboard not detected.

Same output from /proc/cpuinfo as well - 2 siblings detected.

Comment 5 Jim Paradis 2004-07-06 20:28:55 UTC
To the original reporter: could you do a "dmesg -s 65536" and attach
the result to this bug report?


Comment 6 Peter Kiem 2004-08-01 11:50:07 UTC
Created attachment 102339 [details]
Requested dmesg output

Now running the 2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp kernel

Comment 7 Christian P. MOMON 2005-01-20 22:07:23 UTC
I have the same problem with a P4S800 motherboard (HyperThreading bios
 option enable).
When i boot on Knoppix 3.3 (Linux Knoppix 2.4.24-xfs #1 SMP Mi Feb 4
01:03:50 CET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux), i ses two CPU:
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 2400.118
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov 
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
bogomips        : 4784.12

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 2400.118
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov 
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
bogomips        : 4797.23


But, with  Fedora Core 3 updated (last is Linux ocmstar
2.6.10-1.737_FC3 #1 Mon Jan 10 13:50:10 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linu), the SMP version kernel stopping when it is booting (i can
press enter and flood the console but nothing else run). Nothing
special in the log. Any idea ?


Comment 8 Jim Paradis 2006-03-01 23:05:27 UTC
Does this issue persist in the most current update?


Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-03-18 22:16:47 UTC
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