diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts.py
index e7128df0ff..c1a481ba9e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/facts.py
@@ -1594,7 +1594,6 @@ class OpenBSDHardware(Hardware):
     In addition, it also defines number of DMI facts and device facts.
     """
     platform = 'OpenBSD'
-    DMESG_BOOT = '/var/run/dmesg.boot'
 
     def populate(self):
         self.sysctl = self.get_sysctl()
@@ -1652,19 +1651,19 @@ class OpenBSDHardware(Hardware):
 
     def get_processor_facts(self):
         processor = []
-        dmesg_boot = get_file_content(OpenBSDHardware.DMESG_BOOT)
-        if not dmesg_boot:
-            rc, dmesg_boot, err = self.module.run_command("/sbin/dmesg")
-        i = 0
-        for line in dmesg_boot.splitlines():
-            if line.split(' ', 1)[0] == 'cpu%i:' % i:
-                processor.append(line.split(' ', 1)[1])
-                i = i + 1
-        processor_count = i
+        for i in range(int(self.sysctl['hw.ncpu'])):
+            processor.append(self.sysctl['hw.model'])
+
         self.facts['processor'] = processor
-        self.facts['processor_count'] = processor_count
-        # I found no way to figure out the number of Cores per CPU in OpenBSD
-        self.facts['processor_cores'] = 'NA'
+        # The following is partly a lie because there is no reliable way to
+        # determine the number of physical CPUs in the system. We can only
+        # query the number of logical CPUs, which hides the number of cores.
+        # On amd64/i386 we could try to inspect the smt/core/package lines in
+        # dmesg, however even those have proven to be unreliable.
+        # So take a shortcut and report the logical number of processors in
+        # 'processor_count' and 'processor_cores' and leave it at that.
+        self.facts['processor_count'] = self.sysctl['hw.ncpu']
+        self.facts['processor_cores'] = self.sysctl['hw.ncpu']
 
     def get_device_facts(self):
         devices = []