Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/apic: skip cpu slot reservation logic on boot in case of NR_CPUS == 1

From: Yury Norov
Date: Fri Sep 02 2022 - 13:37:35 EST


On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 10:14:51AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 9/2/22 09:42, Yury Norov wrote:
> > This is RFC because I'm not sure that this is not a false positive from
> > smatch. If NR_CPUS is 1, and the condition is always true, it's simply
> > optimized out by a compiler, and nothing wrong happens, except maybe a
> > couple of checks on boot.
>
> I think it's a reasonable warning, but it's also not something we need
> to hack around. We can surely only land in here with
> boot_cpu_detected==true if NR_CPUS==1, so the rest of the expression is
> moot.
>
> I don't think it's worth adding the #ifdef.

Thanks Dave. Then I'll add a comment and move my series as-is.

Thanks,
Yury