linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 16/58] x86/apic: Sanitize num

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Message-ID: <87mszcnkfa.ffs@tglx>
Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:57:13 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        Peter Keresztes Schmidt <peter@...esztesschmidt.de>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 16/58] x86/apic: Sanitize num_processors handling

On Mon, Jul 31 2023 at 14:50, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Why can't XENPV pretend that it has a smp configuration detected,
> i.e. setting smp_found_config as any other special get_smp_config()
> implementation does?

The below should do the trick, no?


--- a/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c
@@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ static void __init _get_smp_config(unsig
 	if (subtract)
 		set_nr_cpu_ids(nr_cpu_ids - subtract);
 #endif
-
+	/* Pretend to be a proper enumerated system */
+	smp_found_config = 1;
 }
 
 static void __init xen_pv_smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void)