# \[PATCH v2 5/6\] KVM: s390: Cap KVM\_CAP\_NR\_VCPUS by num\_online\_cpus()

- From: Vitaly Kuznetsov \<vkuznets@redhat.com\>
- Date: 2021-11-16 16:36:05 
- List: linux-mips
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-mips/2021/11/1576601
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/kvm/2021/11/1576596/t.md

```text
KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS is a legacy advisory value which on other architectures
return num_online_cpus() caped by KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS or something else
(ppc and arm64 are special cases). On s390, KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS returns
the same as KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS and this may turn out to be a bad
'advice'. Switch s390 to returning caped num_online_cpus() too.

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
---
 arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index 6a6dd5e1daf6..1cfe36f6432e 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -585,6 +585,8 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
 			r = KVM_MAX_VCPUS;
 		else if (sclp.has_esca && sclp.has_64bscao)
 			r = KVM_S390_ESCA_CPU_SLOTS;
+		if (ext == KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS)
+			r = min_t(unsigned int, num_online_cpus(), r);
 		break;
 	case KVM_CAP_S390_COW:
 		r = MACHINE_HAS_ESOP;
-- 
2.33.1

```
