From 62e6f1e8bb7c48c02b8bdb3085c5f6365682149b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:26:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix maxcpus=1 oops in show_stat()
Alexey Dobriyan reports that maxcpus=1 is still broken in 2.6.23-rc4:
if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set, x86_64 bootup oopses in show_stat() -
for_each_possible_cpu accesses a per-cpu area which was never set up.
Alexey identified commit 61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4
(ACPI: boot correctly with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0") as the origin;
but it's not really to blame, just exposes a bug in 2.6.23-rc1's commit
8b3b295502444340dd0701855ac422fbf32e161d (Especially when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU,
avoid needlessy allocating resources for CPUs that can never become available).
rc1's test for max_cpus < 2 in start_kernel() wasn't working because
max_cpus was still NR_CPUS at that point: until rc4 moved the maxcpus
parsing earlier. Now it sets cpu_possible_map to 1 before allocating
all possible per-cpu areas; then smp_init() expands cpu_possible_map
to cpu_present_map (0xf in my case) later on.
rc1's commit has good intentions, but expects cpu_present_map to be
limited by maxcpus, which is only the case on i386. cpus_and(possible,
possible,present) might be good, but needs an audit of cpu_present_map
uses - there may well be assumptions that any cpu present is possible.
So stay safe for now and just revert those #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
optimizations in rc1's commit.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
init/main.c | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 450e6ee52ab6..9def935ab13a 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -397,10 +397,6 @@ static void __init smp_init(void)
{
unsigned int cpu;
-#ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
- cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map;
-#endif
-
/* FIXME: This should be done in userspace --RR */
for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
if (num_online_cpus() >= max_cpus)
@@ -545,10 +541,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
setup_arch(&command_line);
setup_command_line(command_line);
unwind_setup();
-#ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
- if (max_cpus < 2)
- cpu_possible_map = cpu_online_map;
-#endif
setup_per_cpu_areas();
smp_prepare_boot_cpu(); /* arch-specific boot-cpu hooks */
--
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