linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Don't fall over when only one CPU

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Message-ID: <176055119471.1528900.16047808072294975428.b4-ty@google.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:02:50 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, 
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Don't fall over when only one CPU

On Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:12:31 +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> Running this test on a system with only one CPU is not a recipe for
> success. However, there's no clear-cut reason why it absolutely
> shouldn't work, so the test shouldn't completely reject such a platform.
> 
> At present, the *3/4 calculation will return zero on these platforms and
> the test fails. So, instead just skip that calculation.
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 selftests, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: selftests: Don't fall over when only one CPU
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/98dea1b75186

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