Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix /proc/cpuinfo cpumask warning

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Thu Oct 27 2022 - 19:07:29 EST


On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 08:58:43 PDT (-0700), ajones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Commit 78e5a3399421 ("cpumask: fix checking valid cpu range") has
started issuing warnings[*] when cpu indices equal to nr_cpu_ids - 1
are passed to cpumask_next* functions. seq_read_iter() and cpuinfo's
start and next seq operations implement a pattern like

n = cpumask_next(n - 1, mask);
show(n);
while (1) {
++n;
n = cpumask_next(n - 1, mask);
if (n >= nr_cpu_ids)
break;
show(n);
}

which will issue the warning when reading /proc/cpuinfo.

[*] Warnings will only appear with DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS enabled.

This series address the issue for x86 and riscv, but from a quick
grep of cpuinfo seq operations, I think at least openrisc, powerpc,
and s390 also need an equivalent patch. While the test is simple (see
next paragraph) I'm not equipped to test on each architecture.

To test, just build a kernel with DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS enabled, boot to
a shell, do 'cat /proc/cpuinfo', and look for a kernel warning.

While the patches are being posted together in a series since they're
for two different architectures they don't necessarily need to go
through the same tree.

v3:
- Change condition from >= to == in order to still get a warning
for > as that's unexpected. [Yury]
- Picked up tags on the riscv patch

v2:
- Added all the information I should have in the first place
to the commit message [Boris]
- Changed style of fix [Boris]

Andrew Jones (2):
RISC-V: Fix /proc/cpuinfo cpumask warning

I just took the RISC-V fix, might be worth re-sending the x86 one alone as nobody's replied over there so it may be lost.

Thanks!

x86: Fix /proc/cpuinfo cpumask warning

arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c | 3 +++
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)