Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86/smp: Fix __max_logical_packages value setup

[Jiri Olsa]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 03:54:17PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 06:23:58PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:

SNIP

> > ---
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > index 157bf0957219..484f7d357c77 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static void __init smp_init_package_map(void)
> >  		ncpus = 1;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	__max_logical_packages = DIV_ROUND_UP(total_cpus, ncpus);
> > +	__max_logical_packages = total_cpus;
> 
> This seems undesirable.. it would grow the bitmap unnecessarily big on
> most setups.
> 
> Is there no way to detect the brain damage inflicted by that BIOS option
> and fudge ncpus in that case?

yea, I have no idea.. that's why this is RFC ;-)

maybe we could also gradually allocate this bitmap
in topology_update_package_map.. I'll check on that

jirka