linux-kernel - [PATCH] fix maxcpus=1 oops in show

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Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:26:50 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fix maxcpus=1 oops in show_stat()

Alexey Dobriyan reports that maxcpus=1 is still broken in 2.6.23-rc4:
if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set, x86_64 bootup oopses in show_stat() -
for_each_possible_cpu accesses a per-cpu area which was never set up.

Alexey identified commit 61ec7567db103d537329b0db9a887db570431ff4
(ACPI: boot correctly with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0") as the origin;
but it's not really to blame, just exposes a bug in 2.6.23-rc1's commit
8b3b295502444340dd0701855ac422fbf32e161d (Especially when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU,
avoid needlessy allocating resources for CPUs that can never become available).

rc1's test for max_cpus < 2 in start_kernel() wasn't working because
max_cpus was still NR_CPUS at that point: until rc4 moved the maxcpus
parsing earlier.  Now it sets cpu_possible_map to 1 before allocating
all possible per-cpu areas; then smp_init() expands cpu_possible_map
to cpu_present_map (0xf in my case) later on.

rc1's commit has good intentions, but expects cpu_present_map to be
limited by maxcpus, which is only the case on i386.  cpus_and(possible,
possible,present) might be good, but needs an audit of cpu_present_map
uses - there may well be assumptions that any cpu present is possible.
So stay safe for now and just revert those #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
optimizations in rc1's commit.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>

--- 2.6.23-rc4/init/main.c	2007-08-28 04:42:58.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/init/main.c	2007-08-30 20:45:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -397,10 +397,6 @@ static void __init smp_init(void)
 {
 	unsigned int cpu;

-#ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-	cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map;
-#endif
-
 	/* FIXME: This should be done in userspace --RR */
 	for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
 		if (num_online_cpus() >= max_cpus)
@@ -545,10 +541,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void
 	setup_arch(&command_line);
 	setup_command_line(command_line);
 	unwind_setup();
-#ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-	if (max_cpus < 2)
-		cpu_possible_map = cpu_online_map;
-#endif
 	setup_per_cpu_areas();
 	smp_prepare_boot_cpu();	/* arch-specific boot-cpu hooks */

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