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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, guohanjun@huawei.com,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/isolcpus: Show isolated cpu map
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:06:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170213120650.GN6515@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1486979039-17874-1-git-send-email-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 05:43:59PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> The commit a6e4491c682a ("sched/isolcpus: Output warning when the
> 'isolcpus=' kernel parameter is invalid") adds an error message
> when specified cpu bigger than nr_cpu_ids, but nr_cpumask_bits in
> cpulist_parse() could be nr_cpu_ids or NR_CPUS.
> 
> eg, NR_CPUS=64, nr_cpu_ids=8 in ARM64, cpulist_parse() won't return
> -ERANGE if isolcpus=1-10;
> 

But why does cpulist_parse() use nr_cpumask_bits, that seems to be the
problem, so why not look there?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-13 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-13  9:43 [PATCH] sched/isolcpus: Show isolated cpu map Kefeng Wang
2017-02-13 12:06 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2017-02-13 13:07   ` Kefeng Wang
2017-02-13 13:32     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-14  1:53       ` Kefeng Wang

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