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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@zoho.com>
Cc: zijun_hu@htc.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	cl@linux.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH] mm/percpu.c: fix panic triggered by BUG_ON() falsely
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 20:24:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161014002441.GG32534@mtj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92d3e474-856a-7f78-a9c3-b83e5913cd13@zoho.com>

Hello,

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 08:06:10AM +0800, zijun_hu wrote:
> > I really can't decode what the actual issue is here.  Can you please
> > give an example of a concrete case?
> > 
> the right relationship between the number of CPUs @nr_cpus within a percpu group
> and the number of unites @nr_units within the same group is that
> @nr_units == roundup(@nr_cpus, @upa);

My question was whether there can be actual hardware configurations
where this code can fail and if so what they look like and how they
would fail.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-14  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-11 14:00 [RFC v2 PATCH] mm/percpu.c: fix panic triggered by BUG_ON() falsely zijun_hu
2016-10-12 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2016-10-13  0:05   ` zijun_hu
2016-10-13  0:09   ` zijun_hu
2016-10-13 23:29 ` Tejun Heo
2016-10-14  0:06   ` zijun_hu
2016-10-14  0:24     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-10-14  0:52       ` zijun_hu
2016-10-14  0:15   ` zijun_hu

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