netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 bpf] bpf: selftests: handle sparse CPU allocations

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Date:   Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:48:20 -0800
From:   Y Song <ys114321@...il.com>
To:     Martynas Pumputis <m@...bda.lt>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf] bpf: selftests: handle sparse CPU allocations

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 1:18 AM Martynas Pumputis <m@...bda.lt> wrote:
>
> Previously, bpf_num_possible_cpus() had a bug when calculating a
> number of possible CPUs in the case of sparse CPU allocations, as
> it was considering only the first range or element of
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible.
>
> E.g. in the case of "0,2-3" (CPU 1 is not available), the function
> returned 1 instead of 3.
>
> This patch fixes the function by making it parse all CPU ranges and
> elements.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martynas Pumputis <m@...bda.lt>

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>