This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bounds: support non-power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bounds-support-non-power-of-two-config_nr_cpus.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f2d5dcb48f7ba9e3ff249d58fc1fa963d374e66a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:55:49 +0100
Subject: bounds: support non-power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS
From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit f2d5dcb48f7ba9e3ff249d58fc1fa963d374e66a upstream.
ilog2() rounds down, so for example when PowerPC 85xx sets CONFIG_NR_CPUS
to 24, we will only allocate 4 bits to store the number of CPUs instead of
5. Use bits_per() instead, which rounds up. Found by code inspection.
The effect of this would probably be a misaccounting when doing NUMA
balancing, so to a user, it would only be a performance penalty. The
effects may be more wide-spread; it's hard to tell.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231010145549.1244748-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 90572890d202 ("mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}")
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/bounds.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/bounds.c
+++ b/kernel/bounds.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ int main(void)
DEFINE(NR_PAGEFLAGS, __NR_PAGEFLAGS);
DEFINE(MAX_NR_ZONES, __MAX_NR_ZONES);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- DEFINE(NR_CPUS_BITS, ilog2(CONFIG_NR_CPUS));
+ DEFINE(NR_CPUS_BITS, bits_per(CONFIG_NR_CPUS));
#endif
DEFINE(SPINLOCK_SIZE, sizeof(spinlock_t));
/* End of constants */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.19/loop-check-for-overflow-while-configuring-loop.patch
queue-4.19/ubifs-set-page-uptodate-in-the-correct-place.patch
queue-4.19/bounds-support-non-power-of-two-config_nr_cpus.patch
