Re: [PATCH v3] ARM64: Dynamically allocate cpumasks and increase supported CPUs to 512

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Mar 12 2024 - 13:56:05 EST


On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 10:06:06AM -0700, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
>
> > This could be an issue in the ARM64 arch code itself where there maybe
> > an assumption elsewhere that a cpumask can always store up to NR_CPU
> > cpus and not only nr_cpu_ids as OFFSTACK does.
> >
> > How can I exercise the opp driver in order to recreate the problem?
> >
> > I assume the opp driver is ARM specific? x86 defaults to OFFSTACK so if
> > there is an issue with OFFSTACK in opp then it should fail with kernel
> > default configuration on that platform.
>
> I checked the ARM64 arch sources use of NR_CPUS and its all fine.
>
> Also verified in my testing logs that CONFIG_PM_OPP was set in all tests.
>
> No warnings in the kernel log during those tests.
>
> How to reproduce this?

I guess you need a platform with a dts that has an "operating-points-v2"
property. I don't have any around.

Sudeep was trying to trigger this code path earlier, not sure where he
got to.

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Catalin