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housekeeping_setup() checks cpumask_intersects(present, online) to ensure that the kernel will have at least one housekeeping CPU after smp_init(), but this doesn't work if the maxcpus= kernel parameter limits the number of processors available after bootup. For example, a kernel with "maxcpus=2 nohz_full=0-2" parameters crashes at boot time on a virtual machine with 4 CPUs. Change housekeeping_setup() to use cpumask_first_and() and check that the returned CPU number is valid and less than setup_max_cpus. Another corner case is "nohz_full=0" on a machine with a single CPU or with the maxcpus=1 kernel argument. In this case non_housekeeping_mask is empty and tick_nohz_full_setup() makes no sense. And indeed, the kernel hits the WARN_ON(tick_nohz_full_running) in tick_sched_do_timer(). And how should the kernel interpret the "nohz_full=" parameter? It should be silently ignored, but currently cpulist_parse() happily returns the empty cpumask and this leads to the same problem. Change housekeeping_setup() to check cpumask_empty(non_housekeeping_mask) and do nothing in this case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240413141746.GA10008@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.