Re: how to tell if my kernel is SMP enabled?

["Mulyadi Santosa" <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Scott Lovenberg
<scott.lovenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>
> >   a simple one this time -- how can i tell if my currently-running
>  > kernel is SMP capable?

ehmmmm:
(as root)
# dd if=/dev/kmem skip=3G bs=1 | strings -a -t x | grep -i SMP

  67210 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@terranova) #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007
  913a0 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@terranova) #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007
  f73a4 BCPSMP
 2fc000 Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@terranova) (gcc
version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP
Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.47-generic)
 2fcca8 alternatives_smp_module_del
 2fccc4 alternatives_smp_module_add
 2fd3d8 native_smp_call_function_mask
 2fd3f6 native_smp_send_reschedule
 2fd427 smp_call_function_single
 2fde40 2.6.22-14-generic SMP mod_unload 586
 36eaa5 Use CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH or CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP.
 36ecc8 <6>SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
 36ecf4 <6>SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
.........

we saw SMP specific functions compiled in here...at least their symbols.

regards,

Mulyadi.

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