Hi Brice,
Thanks for the workaround -- it works very good.

Attached please find the two output file after run hwloc-gather-cpuid.
Let me after this is fixed!

thanks,
Jianjun

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Brice Goglin <brice.gog...@inria.fr> wrote:

> Thanks for the debugging. I guess VMware doesn't properly emulate the
> CPUID instruction.
>
> Please do:
> 1) take a tarball from git master at
> https://ci.inria.fr/hwloc/job/master-0-tarball/ and build it
> 2) export HWLOC_COMPONENTS=-x86 in your terminal
> 3) do utils/hwloc/hwloc-gather-cpuid
> 4) tar cfj cpuid.tbz2 foo and send that cpuid.tbz2
>
> Step (3) might do an infinite loop for the same reason, please replace
> for(i=0; ; i++) {
> with
> for(i=0; i<10; i++) {
> everywhere in utils/hwloc/hwloc-gather-cpuid.c
>
> This tarball will help me find what's buggy in VMware CPUID instruction.
>
>
> In the meantime, you can fix your hwloc by exporting HWLOC_COMPONENTS=-x86
> in your environment.
>
> If somebody knows how do detect vmware by looking under /proc or /sys, we
> could use that to automatically set that environment variable.
>
> thanks
> Brice
>
>
>
>
>
> Le 01/02/2016 05:59, Jianjun Wen a écrit :
>
> I did a debug build. Found it loops forever in this loop in
> topology-x86.c:404.
>
>
> /* Get package/core/thread information from cpuid 0x0b
>    * (Intel x2APIC)
>    */
>   if (cpuid_type == intel && has_x2apic(features)) {
>     unsigned level, apic_nextshift, apic_number, apic_type, apic_id = 0,
> apic_shift = 0, id;
>     for (level = 0; ; level++) {
>       ecx = level;
>       eax = 0x0b;
>       hwloc_x86_cpuid(&eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
>       if (!eax && !ebx)
>         break;
>     }
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Christopher Samuel <
> <sam...@unimelb.edu.au>sam...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> On 01/02/16 15:09, Jianjun Wen wrote:
>>
>> > 0x00007ffff7bce13c in look_proc () from /lib64/libhwloc.so.5
>> >
>> > Always the same place.
>>
>> pstack on the process when stuck might give more of an insight as it
>> should give more of a stack trace.
>>
>> Also running lstopo under strace should show what it is trying to do at
>> that point.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Chris
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