From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] lib/cpumask: add FORCE_NR_CPUS config option
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:41:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmlepdb66h.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdW2H4egcmv238Q_5LBeu9BE=H1fm=n4vZGCGYzhg2VN1A@mail.gmail.com> (Geert Uytterhoeven's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:15:32 +0200")
On Okt 18 2022, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Moreover, this cannot be used on all systems. E.g. on Icicle Kit with
> Microchip PolarFire SoC, CONFIG_NR_CPUS needs to be larger than 4,
> as the system has actually 5 CPU cores (1xE51 and 4xU54), but Linux
> runs only on 4 of them. So you cannot use FORCE_NR_CPUS=y.
But does Linux acually see the E51 core? On the Hifive boards it is
disabled in the device tree, and the cpu probing just skips it,
effectively resulting in only four cpus.
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2022-10-18 13:15 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] lib/cpumask: add FORCE_NR_CPUS config option Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-18 13:41 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2022-10-18 13:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-18 14:35 ` Yury Norov
2022-10-18 14:44 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-10-18 14:59 ` Yury Norov
2022-10-18 15:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-18 16:16 ` Yury Norov
2022-10-19 6:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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