lscpu command shows the wrong number of physical sockets as 'Socket(s):' on aarch64 machine

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

lscpu command shows the wrong number of physical sockets as Socket(s):' on the systems.
The systems have one physical socket CPU, however, lscpu shows:

    # lscpu
    Architecture:        aarch64
    ...
    Socket(s):           4
    ...

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for aarch64
  • FUJITSU PRIMEHPC FX1000
  • FUJITSU PRIMEHPC FX700
  • HPE Apollo 80
  • GIGABYTE R152-P31

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