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Date:   Tue, 8 Jan 2019 17:18:23 +0530
From:   Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>
To:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
Cc:     linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, Alan Kao <alankao@...estech.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Dmitriy Cherkasov <dmitriy@...-tech.org>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Michael Clark <michaeljclark@....com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Patrick Stählin <me@...ki.ch>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Zong Li <zongbox@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] RISC-V: Remove NR_CPUs check during hartid search
 from DT

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:08 PM Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com> wrote:
>
> In non-smp configuration, hartid can be higher that NR_CPUS.
> riscv_of_processor_hartid should not be compared to hartid to
> NR_CPUS in that case. Moreover, this function checks all the
> DT properties of a hart node. NR_CPUS comparison seems out of
> place.
>
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c
> index f8fa2c63..19edaeae 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c
> @@ -34,10 +34,6 @@ int riscv_of_processor_hartid(struct device_node *node)
>                 pr_warn("Found CPU without hart ID\n");
>                 return -(ENODEV);
>         }
> -       if (hart >= NR_CPUS) {
> -               pr_info("Found hart ID %d, which is above NR_CPUs.  Disabling this hart\n", hart);
> -               return -(ENODEV);
> -       }
>
>         if (of_property_read_string(node, "status", &status)) {
>                 pr_warn("CPU with hartid=%d has no \"status\" property\n", hart);
> --
> 2.7.4
>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>

Regards,
Anup