When capped by nr_cpu_ids, the current code return -EINVAL or -ENODEV. It is better to return -EINVAL for both cases. Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx> To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: x86@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c index f529136..f4f603a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c @@ -2346,7 +2346,7 @@ int generic_processor_info(int apicid, int version) " Processor %d/0x%x ignored.\n", max, thiscpu, apicid); disabled_cpus++; - return -ENODEV; + return -EINVAL; } if (num_processors >= nr_cpu_ids) { -- 2.7.5 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec