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My question mostly about hardware, specifically the Intel i5-2500K CPU which Intel describes as having

# of Cores 4

# of Threads 4

Linux shows me 4 processors:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor
processor : 0
processor : 1
processor : 2
processor : 3

Nevertheless, I've written a little kernel module that shows me 8 processors:

$ cat show_cpus_mod.c 
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/version.h>

#define CLASS_NAME "show_cpus_mod"

#define dbg( format, arg... ) do if ( debug ) pr_info( CLASS_NAME ": %s: " format , __FUNCTION__ , ## arg ); while ( 0 )
#define err( format, arg... ) pr_err( CLASS_NAME ": " format, ## arg )
#define info( format, arg... ) pr_info( CLASS_NAME ": " format, ## arg )
#define warn( format, arg... ) pr_warn( CLASS_NAME ": " format, ## arg )

MODULE_DESCRIPTION( "shows all cpus" );
MODULE_VERSION( "0.1" );
MODULE_LICENSE( "GPL" );
MODULE_AUTHOR( "author <e@mail.mail>" );

static int show_cpus_mod_init( void ) 
 int cpu;
 info( "Start loading module show_cpus_mod.n" );
 for_each_possible_cpu( cpu ) 
 info( "cpu = %dn", cpu );
 
 return 0;


static void show_cpus_mod_exit( void ) 
 info( "Module show_cpus_mod unloadedn" );


module_init( show_cpus_mod_init );
module_exit( show_cpus_mod_exit );

Building:

$ cat Makefile 
CURRENT = $(shell uname -r)
KDIR = /lib/modules/$(CURRENT)/build
PWD = $(shell pwd)
TARGET = show_cpus_mod
obj-m := $(TARGET).o

default:
 $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules

clean:
 @rm -f *.o .*.cmd .*.flags *.mod.c *.order
 @rm -f .*.*.cmd *.symvers *~ *.*~ TODO.*
 @rm -fR .tmp*
 @rm -rf .tmp_versions

Inserting:

# make
# cp show_cpus_mod.ko /lib/modules/4.14.0-kali3-amd64/
# depmod
# modprobe show_cpus_mod

syslog:

localhost kernel: [67596.578805] show_cpus_mod: Start loading module show_cpus_mod.
localhost kernel: [67596.578808] show_cpus_mod: cpu = 0
localhost kernel: [67596.578809] show_cpus_mod: cpu = 1
localhost kernel: [67596.578810] show_cpus_mod: cpu = 2
localhost kernel: [67596.578811] show_cpus_mod: cpu = 3
localhost kernel: [67596.578811] show_cpus_mod: cpu = 4
localhost kernel: [67596.578812] show_cpus_mod: cpu = 5
localhost kernel: [67596.578812] show_cpus_mod: cpu = 6
localhost kernel: [67596.578813] show_cpus_mod: cpu = 7
localhost kernel: [67607.725738] show_cpus_mod: Module show_cpus_mod unloaded

What am I missing in Intel's description? Why 8? Or what is wrong with my kernel module?

You should use for_each_online_cpu or for_each_present_cpu instead of for_each_possible_cpu. That will limit the output to CPUs which are really online or present, respectively.