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,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>,
Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@gmail.com>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-18 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-05 23:08 [PATCH v2 0/5] cpumask: cleanup nr_cpu_ids vs nr_cpumask_bits mess Yury Norov
2022-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] smp: don't declare nr_cpu_ids if NR_CPUS == 1 Yury Norov
2022-09-06 8:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 14:06 ` Yury Norov
2022-09-06 14:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 15:01 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-06 17:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 15:07 ` Yury Norov
2022-09-07 8:02 ` David Laight
2022-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] smp: add set_nr_cpu_ids() Yury Norov
2022-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] lib/cpumask: delete misleading comment Yury Norov
2022-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] lib/cpumask: deprecate nr_cpumask_bits Yury Norov
2022-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] lib/cpumask: add FORCE_NR_CPUS config option Yury Norov
2022-10-18 8:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-18 13:15 ` 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
2022-09-06 8:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] cpumask: cleanup nr_cpu_ids vs nr_cpumask_bits mess Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 12:06 ` Valentin Schneider
2022-09-06 14:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 15:45 ` Valentin Schneider
2022-09-06 16:26 ` Yury Norov
2022-09-06 14:48 ` Yury Norov
2022-09-06 14:35 ` Yury Norov
2022-09-15 14:45 ` Yury Norov
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