One of the uses of chip_id is to find out all cores that are part of the same chip. However ibm,chip_id property is not present in device-tree of PowerVM Lpars. Hence lscpu output shows one core per socket and multiple cores.
Before the patch. # lscpu Architecture: ppc64le Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 128 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-127 Thread(s) per core: 8 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 16 NUMA node(s): 2 Model: 2.2 (pvr 004e 0202) Model name: POWER9 (architected), altivec supported Hypervisor vendor: pHyp Virtualization type: para L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 512K L3 cache: 10240K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-63 NUMA node1 CPU(s): 64-127 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/physical_package_id -1 Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <sri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c index 7159e791a70d..0b8918b43580 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c @@ -867,18 +867,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_get_ibm_chip_id); * @cpu: The logical cpu number. * * Return the value of the ibm,chip-id property corresponding to the given - * logical cpu number. If the chip-id can not be found, returns -1. + * logical cpu number. If the chip-id can not be found, return nid. + * */ int cpu_to_chip_id(int cpu) { struct device_node *np; + int chip_id = -1; np = of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL); if (!np) return -1; + chip_id = of_get_ibm_chip_id(np); + if (chip_id == -1) + chip_id = of_node_to_nid(np); + of_node_put(np); - return of_get_ibm_chip_id(np); + return chip_id; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_to_chip_id); -- 2.18.1