RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] [v2] ethernet: intel: fix building with large NR_CPUS
From: Mekala, SunithaX D <hidden>
Date: 2025-07-08 06:21:33
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Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] [v2] ethernet: intel: fix building with large NR_CPUS
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
With large values of CONFIG_NR_CPUS, three Intel ethernet drivers fail to
compile like:
In function ‘i40e_free_q_vector’,
inlined from ‘i40e_vsi_alloc_q_vectors’ at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c:12112:3:
571 | _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
include/linux/rcupdate.h:1084:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON’
1084 | BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(typeof(*(ptr)), rhf) >= 4096); \
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c:5113:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘kfree_rcu’
5113 | kfree_rcu(q_vector, rcu);
| ^~~~~~~~~
The problem is that the 'rcu' member in 'q_vector' is too far from the start
of the structure. Move this member before the CPU mask instead, in all three
drivers.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
v2: move rcu to just after the napi_struct [Alexander Lobakin]
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k.h | 3 ++-
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)Tested-by: Sunitha Mekala <redacted> (A Contingent worker at Intel)