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bounds: Support non-power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS

Message ID 20231010145549.1244748-1-willy@infradead.org (mailing list archive)
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Series bounds: Support non-power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS | expand

Commit Message

Matthew Wilcox Oct. 10, 2023, 2:55 p.m. UTC
ilog2() rounds down, so for example when PowerPC 85xx sets CONFIG_NR_CPUS
to 24, we will only allocate 4 bits to store the number of CPUs instead
of 5.  Use bits_per() instead, which rounds up.  Found by code inspection.
The effect of this would probably be a misaccounting when doing NUMA
balancing, so to a user, it would only be a performance penalty.
The effects may be more wide-spread; it's hard to tell.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Fixes: 90572890d202 ("mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}")
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
---
 kernel/bounds.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Rik van Riel Oct. 10, 2023, 3:19 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, 2023-10-10 at 15:55 +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> ilog2() rounds down, so for example when PowerPC 85xx sets
> CONFIG_NR_CPUS
> to 24, we will only allocate 4 bits to store the number of CPUs
> instead
> of 5.  Use bits_per() instead, which rounds up.  Found by code
> inspection.
> The effect of this would probably be a misaccounting when doing NUMA
> balancing, so to a user, it would only be a performance penalty.
> The effects may be more wide-spread; it's hard to tell.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> Fixes: 90572890d202 ("mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into
> {cpu,pid}")
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Mel Gorman Oct. 10, 2023, 3:31 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 03:55:49PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> ilog2() rounds down, so for example when PowerPC 85xx sets CONFIG_NR_CPUS
> to 24, we will only allocate 4 bits to store the number of CPUs instead
> of 5.  Use bits_per() instead, which rounds up.  Found by code inspection.
> The effect of this would probably be a misaccounting when doing NUMA
> balancing, so to a user, it would only be a performance penalty.
> The effects may be more wide-spread; it's hard to tell.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> Fixes: 90572890d202 ("mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}")
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
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Patch

diff --git a/kernel/bounds.c b/kernel/bounds.c
index b529182e8b04..c5a9fcd2d622 100644
--- a/kernel/bounds.c
+++ b/kernel/bounds.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@  int main(void)
 	DEFINE(NR_PAGEFLAGS, __NR_PAGEFLAGS);
 	DEFINE(MAX_NR_ZONES, __MAX_NR_ZONES);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-	DEFINE(NR_CPUS_BITS, ilog2(CONFIG_NR_CPUS));
+	DEFINE(NR_CPUS_BITS, bits_per(CONFIG_NR_CPUS));
 #endif
 	DEFINE(SPINLOCK_SIZE, sizeof(spinlock_t));
 #ifdef CONFIG_LRU_GEN