Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 3/3] x86: Bump max number of test CPUs to 255

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On 06/09/19 18:34, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> The max number of CPUs is not actually enforced anywhere, e.g. manually
> setting '-smp 240' when running a unit test will cause random corruption
> and hangs during smp initialization.  Increase the max number of test
> CPUs to 255, which is the true max kvm-unit-tests can support without
> significant changes, e.g. it would need to boot with x2APIC enabled,
> support interrupt remapping, etc...
> 
> There is no known use case for running with more than 64 CPUs, but the
> cost of supporting 255 is minimal, e.g. increases the size of each test
> binary by a few kbs and burns a few extra cycles in init_apic_map().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  lib/x86/apic-defs.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/x86/apic-defs.h b/lib/x86/apic-defs.h
> index 7107f0f..b2014de 100644
> --- a/lib/x86/apic-defs.h
> +++ b/lib/x86/apic-defs.h
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>   * both in C and ASM
>   */
>  
> -#define MAX_TEST_CPUS (64)
> +#define MAX_TEST_CPUS (255)
>  
>  /*
>   * Constants for various Intel APICs. (local APIC, IOAPIC, etc.)
> 

Since this is not a multiple of 8 anymore, the previous patch should
have used (max_cpus + 7) / 8.  Fixed that and queued.

Paolo



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