linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:10:56 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑" 
        <zhouwj-fnst@...fujitsu.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dyoung@...hat.com, vgoyal@...hat.com,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        xlpang@...hat.com, joe@...ches.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:06:45 +0800
Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com> wrote:

> Hi Jon, do you think change as below is OK to you?

So nr_cpus is the maximum value, and maxcpus is the current number.
Figures.  No wonder the documentation is confusing...

Anyway, this is much more along the lines of what I was hoping for, yes;
I'll go ahead and apply it.  Many thanks for humoring me on this!

jon