Is this an expected warning ? I'll boot a vanilla kernel just to be sure. rebased against ab7826595e9ec51a51f622c5fc91e2f59440481a in Linus' repo: [ 0.181441] WARNING: at /home/rtg/ukb/raring/amd64/unstable-3.9/ubuntu-raring/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:324 topology_sane.isra.2+0x6f/0x80() [ 0.181443] Hardware name: S2600CP [ 0.181445] sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node! [node: 1 != 0]. Ignoring dependency. [ 0.166925] smpboot: Booting Node 1, Processors #1 [ 0.181446] Modules linked in: [ 0.181451] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.9.0-0-generic #1 [ 0.181452] Call Trace: [ 0.181457] [] ? topology_sane.isra.2+0x6f/0x80 [ 0.181463] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [ 0.181469] [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50 [ 0.181473] [] ? mcheck_cpu_init+0x378/0x3fb [ 0.181478] [] ? cpuid_eax+0x27/0x2e [ 0.181483] [] topology_sane.isra.2+0x6f/0x80 [ 0.181488] [] set_cpu_sibling_map+0x279/0x449 [ 0.181493] [] start_secondary+0x11d/0x1e5 [ 0.181507] ---[ end trace 8c24ebb220b8c665 ]--- This is a Sandy Bridge 2-way server. See attached. Do you need anything else ? rtg -- Tim Gardner timg@tpi.com www.tpi.com OR 503-601-0234 x102 MT 406-443-5357