Re: [PATCH] ARM64: Dynamically allocate cpumasks and increase supported CPUs to 512

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 03:10:26PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> On 2024/1/15 23:39, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 04:05:56PM -0800, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
> > > Index: linux/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- linux.orig/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > > +++ linux/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > > @@ -1407,7 +1407,21 @@ config SCHED_SMT
> > >    config NR_CPUS
> > >    	int "Maximum number of CPUs (2-4096)"
> > >    	range 2 4096
> > 
> > I think your mailer got to your patch and messed up the white space.
> > There are two spaces before each of these lines rather than the usual
> > one.
> > 
> > > -	default "256"
> > > +	default 512
> > > +
> > > +#
> > > +# Determines the placement of cpumasks.
> > > +#
> > > +# With CPUMASK_OFFSTACK the cpumasks are dynamically allocated.
> > > +# Useful for machines with lots of core because it avoids increasing
> > > +# the size of many of the data structures in the kernel.
> > > +#
> > > +# If this is off then the cpumasks have a static sizes and are
> > > +# embedded within data structures.
> > > +#
> > > +config CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
> > > +	def_bool y
> > > +	depends on NR_CPUS > 256
> > 
> > Should that be ">= 256" ?
> 
> Maybe just select CPUMASK_OFFSTACK if NR_CPUS >= 256,
> 
> 
> But could we just make CPUMASK_OFFSTACK configurable and let user/distro
> to enable it?
> 
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
> index 5ddda7c2ed9b..4254be5aa843 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig
> @@ -535,7 +535,9 @@ config CHECK_SIGNATURE
>         bool
> 
>  config CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
> -       bool "Force CPU masks off stack" if DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
> +       bool "Force CPU masks off stack"
> +       depends on SMP
> +       default n

Please. No.

There is no point in defining a default of n. The default default is n.
Therefore, specifying a default of n is utterly redundant as the option
will still default to n and just adds clutter to Kconfig files.

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