Export cpu topology info via sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar to /proc/cpuinfo. 1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id: represent the physical package id of cpu X; 2) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_id: represent the cpu core id to cpu X; 3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings: represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same core; 4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings: represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same physical package; To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file, drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 4 attributes. For an architecture to support this feature, it must define some of these macros in include/asm-XXX/topology.h: #define topology_physical_package_id(cpu) #define topology_core_id(cpu) #define topology_thread_siblings(cpu) #define topology_core_siblings(cpu) The type of **_id is int. The type of siblings is cpumask_t. To be consistent on all architectures, include/linux/topology.h provides default definitions for any of the above macros that are not defined by include/asm-XXX/topology.h: 1) physical_package_id: -1 2) core_id: 0 3) thread_siblings: just the given CPU 4) core_siblings: just the given CPU Additionally, cpu topology information is provided under /sys/devices/system/cpu and includes these files. The internal source for the output is in brackets ("[]"). kernel_max: the maximum cpu index allowed by the kernel configuration. [NR_CPUS-1] offline: cpus that are not online because they have been HOTPLUGGED off (see cpu-hotplug.txt) or exceed the limit of cpus allowed by the kernel configuration (kernel_max above). [~cpu_online_mask + cpus >= NR_CPUS] online: cpus that are online and being scheduled [cpu_online_mask] possible: cpus that have been allocated resources and can be brought online if they are present. [cpu_possible_mask] present: cpus that have been identified as being present in the system. [cpu_present_mask] The format for the above output is compatible with cpulist_parse() [see <linux/cpumask.h>]. Some examples follow. In this example, there are 64 cpus in the system but cpus 32-63 exceed the kernel max which is limited to 0..31 by the NR_CPUS config option being 32. Note also that cpus 2 and 4-31 are not online but could be brought online as they are both present and possible. kernel_max: 31 offline: 2,4-31,32-63 online: 0-1,3 possible: 0-31 present: 0-31 In this example, the NR_CPUS config option is 128, but the kernel was started with possible_cpus=144. There are 4 cpus in the system and cpu2 was manually taken offline (and is the only cpu that can be brought online.) kernel_max: 127 offline: 2,4-127,128-143 online: 0-1,3 possible: 0-127 present: 0-3 See cpu-hotplug.txt for the possible_cpus=NUM kernel start parameter as well as more information on the various cpumask's.