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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:26:07 -0700
From: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@...onical.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 02:08:03PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> See the script below for example, which shows CPUs grouped by core.
> #!/usr/bin/python3
>
> import os
> import glob
>
> by_core = {}
>
> for path in glob.iglob('/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology/core_id'):
> num = int(path.split('/')[5].replace('cpu', ''))
> core_id = int(open(path).read(), 10)
> by_core.setdefault(core_id, []).append(num)
>
> for core in sorted(by_core.keys()):
> print('%d: %s' % (core, ', '.join([str(s) for s in sorted(by_core[core])])))
>
Note that this gives misleading results on multi-socket systems:
0: 0, 8, 16, 24
1: 1, 9, 17, 25
2: 2, 10, 18, 26
3: 3, 11, 19, 27
4: 4, 12, 20, 28
5: 5, 13, 21, 29
6: 6, 14, 22, 30
7: 7, 15, 23, 31
This system has two sockets, eight cores per socket, two threads per core.
Solar's cpuinfo reports;
$ ./cpuinfo
Found 32 logical processors across 16 physical cores
Thanks
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