From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
Sander Vanheule <sander@svanheule.net>,
Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@gmail.com>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] lib/cpumask: add FORCE_NR_CPUS config option
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:50:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVeHPR_JH0dJ+WSddjd8_hax70JRzd4pqHLNvgbh+-znw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmlepdb66h.fsf@suse.de>
Hi Andreas,
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 3:41 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> On Okt 18 2022, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Moreover, this cannot be used on all systems. E.g. on Icicle Kit with
> > Microchip PolarFire SoC, CONFIG_NR_CPUS needs to be larger than 4,
> > as the system has actually 5 CPU cores (1xE51 and 4xU54), but Linux
> > runs only on 4 of them. So you cannot use FORCE_NR_CPUS=y.
>
> But does Linux acually see the E51 core? On the Hifive boards it is
> disabled in the device tree, and the cpu probing just skips it,
> effectively resulting in only four cpus.
The E51 is indeed disabled in DT.
The CPU parts of arch/riscv/boot/dts/sifive/fu540-c000.dtsi and
arch/riscv/boot/dts/microchip/mpfs.dtsi arre very similar.
Do you get 4 CPUs on Hifive with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=4?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-18 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-05 23:08 [PATCH v2 0/5] cpumask: cleanup nr_cpu_ids vs nr_cpumask_bits mess Yury Norov
2022-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] smp: don't declare nr_cpu_ids if NR_CPUS == 1 Yury Norov
2022-09-06 8:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 14:06 ` Yury Norov
2022-09-06 14:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 15:01 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-09-06 17:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 15:07 ` Yury Norov
2022-09-07 8:02 ` David Laight
2022-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] smp: add set_nr_cpu_ids() Yury Norov
2022-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] lib/cpumask: delete misleading comment Yury Norov
2022-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] lib/cpumask: deprecate nr_cpumask_bits Yury Norov
2022-09-05 23:08 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] lib/cpumask: add FORCE_NR_CPUS config option Yury Norov
2022-10-18 8:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-18 13:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-18 13:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-10-18 13:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2022-10-18 14:35 ` Yury Norov
2022-10-18 14:44 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-10-18 14:59 ` Yury Norov
2022-10-18 15:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-18 16:16 ` Yury Norov
2022-10-19 6:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-09-06 8:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] cpumask: cleanup nr_cpu_ids vs nr_cpumask_bits mess Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 12:06 ` Valentin Schneider
2022-09-06 14:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-06 15:45 ` Valentin Schneider
2022-09-06 16:26 ` Yury Norov
2022-09-06 14:48 ` Yury Norov
2022-09-06 14:35 ` Yury Norov
2022-09-15 14:45 ` Yury Norov
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