Re: [PATCH 1/2] percpu: km: remove SMP check

From: Dennis Zhou
Date: Mon Feb 25 2019 - 10:13:37 EST


On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 01:13:43PM +0000, Peng Fan wrote:
> percpu-km could only be selected by NEED_PER_CPU_KM which
> depends on !SMP, so CONFIG_SMP will be false when choose percpu-km.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/percpu-km.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/percpu-km.c b/mm/percpu-km.c
> index 0f643dc2dc65..66e5598be876 100644
> --- a/mm/percpu-km.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu-km.c
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
> * chunk size is not aligned. percpu-km code will whine about it.
> */
>
> -#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_NEED_PER_CPU_PAGE_FIRST_CHUNK)
> #error "contiguous percpu allocation is incompatible with paged first chunk"
> #endif
>
> --
> 2.16.4
>

Hi,

I think keeping CONFIG_SMP makes this easier to remember dependencies
rather than having to dig into the config. So this is a NACK from me.

Thanks,
Dennis