On Fri, 27 May 2022, Julia Suvorova wrote:
> In order to use the increased number of cpus, we need to bring smbios
> tables in line with the SMBIOS 3.0 specification. This allows us to
> introduce core_count2 which acts as a duplicate of core_count if we have
> fewer cores than 256, and contains the actual core number per socket if
> we have more.
>
> core_enabled2 and thread_count2 fields work the same way.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Suvorova <jus...@redhat.com>
Other than the comment below,
Reviewed-by: Ani Sinha <a...@anisinha.ca>
> ---
> include/hw/firmware/smbios.h | 3 +++
> hw/smbios/smbios.c | 11 +++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/hw/firmware/smbios.h b/include/hw/firmware/smbios.h
> index 4b7ad77a44..c427ae5558 100644
> --- a/include/hw/firmware/smbios.h
> +++ b/include/hw/firmware/smbios.h
> @@ -187,6 +187,9 @@ struct smbios_type_4 {
> uint8_t thread_count;
> uint16_t processor_characteristics;
> uint16_t processor_family2;
> + uint16_t core_count2;
> + uint16_t core_enabled2;
> + uint16_t thread_count2;
I would add a comment along the lines of
/* section 7.5, table 21 smbios spec version 3.0.0 */
> } QEMU_PACKED;
>
> /* SMBIOS type 11 - OEM strings */
> diff --git a/hw/smbios/smbios.c b/hw/smbios/smbios.c
> index 60349ee402..45d7be6b30 100644
> --- a/hw/smbios/smbios.c
> +++ b/hw/smbios/smbios.c
> @@ -709,8 +709,15 @@ static void smbios_build_type_4_table(MachineState *ms,
> unsigned instance)
> SMBIOS_TABLE_SET_STR(4, serial_number_str, type4.serial);
> SMBIOS_TABLE_SET_STR(4, asset_tag_number_str, type4.asset);
> SMBIOS_TABLE_SET_STR(4, part_number_str, type4.part);
> - t->core_count = t->core_enabled = ms->smp.cores;
> - t->thread_count = ms->smp.threads;
> +
> + t->core_count = (ms->smp.cores > 255) ? 0xFF : ms->smp.cores;
> + t->core_enabled = t->core_count;
> +
> + t->core_count2 = t->core_enabled2 = cpu_to_le16(ms->smp.cores);
> +
> + t->thread_count = (ms->smp.threads > 255) ? 0xFF : ms->smp.threads;
> + t->thread_count2 = cpu_to_le16(ms->smp.threads);
> +
> t->processor_characteristics = cpu_to_le16(0x02); /* Unknown */
> t->processor_family2 = cpu_to_le16(0x01); /* Other */
>
> --
> 2.35.1
>
>
