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diff --git a/src/soc/intel/xeon_sp/spr/cpu.c b/src/soc/intel/xeon_sp/spr/cpu.c
index c9ed8e12c9..15cb84642d 100644
--- a/src/soc/intel/xeon_sp/spr/cpu.c
+++ b/src/soc/intel/xeon_sp/spr/cpu.c
@@ -224,6 +224,12 @@ static int get_thread_count(void)
{
unsigned int num_phys = 0, num_virts = 0;
+ /*
+ * This call calculates the thread count which is corresponding to num_virts
+ * (logical cores), while num_phys is corresponding to physical cores (in SMT
+ * system, one physical core has multiple threads, a.k.a. logical cores).
+ * Hence num_phys is not actually used.
+ */
cpu_read_topology(&num_phys, &num_virts);
printk(BIOS_SPEW, "Detected %u cores and %u threads\n", num_phys, num_virts);
return num_virts * soc_get_num_cpus();