Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Make SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS depend on SMP

[David Hildenbrand]

On 24.09.24 17:42, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS depends on "NR_CPUS >= 4". Unfortunately, that evaluates
> to true if there is no NR_CPUS configuration option. This results in
> CONFIG_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS=y for mac_defconfig. This in turn causes the m68k
> "q800" and "virt" machines to crash in qemu if debugging options are
> enabled.
>
> Making CONFIG_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS dependent on the existence of NR_CPUS
> does not work since a dependency on the existence of a numeric Kconfig
> entry always evaluates to false. Example:
>
> config HAVE_NO_NR_CPUS
>         def_bool y
>         depends on !NR_CPUS
>
> After adding this to a Kconfig file, "make defconfig" includes:
> $ grep NR_CPUS .config
> CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64
> CONFIG_HAVE_NO_NR_CPUS=y
>
> Defining NR_CPUS for m68k does not help either since many architectures
> define NR_CPUS only for SMP configurations.
>
> Make SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS depend on SMP instead to solve the problem.
>
> Fixes: 394290cba966 ("mm: turn USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS / USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS into Kconfig options")
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb