+ bounds-support-non-power-of-two-config_nr_cpus.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

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The patch titled
     Subject: bounds: support non-power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     bounds-support-non-power-of-two-config_nr_cpus.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/bounds-support-non-power-of-two-config_nr_cpus.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: bounds: support non-power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:55:49 +0100

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>
---

 kernel/bounds.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/bounds.c~bounds-support-non-power-of-two-config_nr_cpus
+++ a/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));
 #ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are

bounds-support-non-power-of-two-config_nr_cpus.patch





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