Re: [PATCH v4] cpu-topology: Don't error on more than CONFIG_NR_CPUS CPUs in device tree

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Jan 17 2020 - 09:21:39 EST


On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:19:57AM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 09:52:52AM +0800, Zeng Tao wrote:
> > When the kernel is configured with CONFIG_NR_CPUS smaller than the
> > number of CPU nodes in the device tree(DT), all the CPU nodes parsing
> > done to fetch topology information will fail. This is not reasonable
> > as it is legal to have all the physical CPUs in the system in the DT.
> >
> > Let us just skip such CPU DT nodes that are not used in the kernel
> > rather than returning an error.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Zeng Tao <prime.zeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> Can you pick this patch for v5.6 ?

oops, didn't realize this was for me, sorry, will go do so now.

greg k-h