Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2010-06-18

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Linux cannot run with 0 cores

From: Paul E. McKenney <hidden>
Date: 2010-06-18 18:02:31

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:33:06AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
If we configure with CONFIG_SMP=n or set NR_CPUS less than the number of
SMT threads we will set the max cores property to 0 in the
ibm,client-architecture-support structure. On new versions of firmware that
understand this property it obliges and terminates our partition.

Use DIV_ROUND_UP so we handle not only the CONFIG_SMP=n case but also the
case where NR_CPUS isn't a multiple of the number of SMT threads.
Thank you, Anton!!!

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <redacted>

(Will test as soon as the system that hit this becomes available.)
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Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <redacted>
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Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c	2010-06-17 09:08:20.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c	2010-06-17 09:10:02.000000000 +1000
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ static void __init prom_send_capabilitie
 				    "ibm_architecture_vec structure inconsistent: 0x%x !\n",
 				    *cores);
 		} else {
-			*cores = NR_CPUS / prom_count_smt_threads();
+			*cores = DIV_ROUND_UP(NR_CPUS, prom_count_smt_threads());
 			prom_printf("Max number of cores passed to firmware: 0x%x\n",
 				    (unsigned long)*cores);
 		}
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