I have a platform with both LOCAL_APIC and LOCAL_X2APIC entries for each CPU. However, the ids for the LOCAL_APIC entries are all invalid ids of 255, so they have always been skipped in acpi_parse_lapic() by this code from f3bf1dbe64b6 ("x86/acpi: Prevent LAPIC id 0xff from being accounted"): /* Ignore invalid ID */ if (processor->id == 0xff) return 0; With the change in this thread, the return value of 0 means that the 'count' variable in acpi_parse_entries_array() is incremented. The positive return value means that 'has_lapic_cpus' is set, even though no entries were actually matched. Then, when the MADT is iterated with acpi_parse_x2apic(), the x2apic entries with ids less than 255 are skipped and most of my CPUs aren't recognized. I think the original version of this change was okay for this case in https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87pm4bp54z.ffs@tglx/T/ P.S. I could be convinced that the MADT for my platform is somewhat ill-formed and that I'm relying on pre-existing behavior. I'm not well-versed enough in the topic to know for sure.