Re: [PATCH 3/6] M68K: cpuinfo: Fix a warning for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK

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Hi Huacai,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 11:08 AM Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 5:01 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:53 AM Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 4:33 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 9:53 AM Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > When CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK and CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is selected,
> > > >
> > > > DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS depends on SMP, which is not supported on m68k,
> > > > and thus cannot be enabled.
> > > This patch is derived from MIPS and LoongArch, I search all
> > > architectures and change those that look the same as MIPS and
> > > LoongArch.
> > > And the warning message below is also a copy-paste from LoongArch, sorry.
> > >
> > > Since M68K doesn't support SMP, then this patch seems to make no
> > > difference, but does it make sense to keep consistency across all
> > > architectures?
> >
> > Yes, having consistency is good.  But that should be mentioned in the
> > patch description, instead of a scary warning CCed to stable ;-)
> >
> > BTW, you probably want to update the other copy of c_start() in
> > arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c, too.
> For no-SMP architectures, it seems c_start() in
> arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c is more reasonable (just use 1, neither
> NR_CPUS, nor nr_cpu_ids)?

The advantage of using nr_cpu_ids() is that this is one place less
to update when adding SMP support later...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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