Bug 1400589

Summary: kernel cores do not boot up
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: LaKing <LaKing>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 25CC: cz172638, gansalmon, ichavero, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
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Description LaKing 2016-12-01 14:46:06 UTC
Description of problem:
At boot on fedora 25, two cores are missing. The machine is a dual-xeon computer, and the CPU's are 32 bit Hyper-treading technology cores.

do_boot_cpu failed(-1) to wakeup CPU#1
do_boot_cpu failed(-1) to wakeup CPU#3

from lscpu
On-line CPU(s) list:   0,2
Off-line CPU(s) list:  1,3

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 25

How reproducible: always, on certain hardware

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot a computer with kernel 4.8.6-300.fc25, and a 32 bit Xeon processor.


Actual results:
2 cores missing

when booting kernel 4.2.3-300.fc23 the CPUs show up fine.

Comment 1 LaKing 2016-12-02 09:00:25 UTC
Okay sorry, this might be old hardware failing, is it started to produce these side effects randomly.