On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 03:18:24PM +0530, K Prateek Nayak wrote: > Have there been any reports on an x86 system / VM where > topology_span_sane() was tripped? At the very least Intel SNC 'feature' tripped it at some point. They figured it made sense to have the LLC span two nodes. But I think there were some really dodgy VMs too. But yeah, its not been often. But basically dodgy BIOS/VM data can mess up things badly enough for it to trip.