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Linus Torvalds 5d272dd1b3 cpumask: limit FORCE_NR_CPUS to just the UP case 
Hardcoding the number of CPUs at compile time does improve code
generation, but if you get it wrong the result will be confusion.

We already limited this earlier to only "experts" (see commit
fe5759d5bf "cpumask: limit visibility of FORCE_NR_CPUS"), but with
distro kernel configs often having EXPERT enabled, that turns out to not
be much of a limit.

To quote the philosophers at Disney: "Everyone can be an expert. And
when everyone's an expert, no one will be".

There's a runtime warning if you then set nr_cpus to anything but the
forced number, but apparently that can be ignored too [1] and by then
it's pretty much too late anyway.

If we had some real way to limit this to "embedded only", maybe it would
be worth it, but let's see if anybody even notices that the option is
gone.  We need to simplify kernel configuration anyway.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240618105036.208a8860@rorschach.local.home/ [1]
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-06-18 09:00:04 -07:00
arch EFI fixes for v6.10 #3 2024-06-18 07:48:56 -07:00
block block: unmap and free user mapped integrity via submitter 2024-06-12 11:00:50 -06:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto This push fixes a bug in the new ecc P521 code as well as a buggy 2024-05-20 08:47:54 -07:00
Documentation 19 hotfixes, 8 of which are cc:stable. 2024-06-17 12:30:07 -07:00
drivers EFI fixes for v6.10 #3 2024-06-18 07:48:56 -07:00
fs 19 hotfixes, 8 of which are cc:stable. 2024-06-17 12:30:07 -07:00
include lsm/stable-6.10 PR 20240617 2024-06-17 18:35:12 -07:00
init gcc: disable '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-9 2024-06-15 10:43:04 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: fix cancellation overwriting req->flags 2024-06-13 19:25:28 -06:00
ipc Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs. 2024-05-19 14:02:03 -07:00
kernel lsm/stable-6.10 PR 20240617 2024-06-17 18:35:12 -07:00
lib cpumask: limit FORCE_NR_CPUS to just the UP case 2024-06-18 09:00:04 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm 19 hotfixes, 8 of which are cc:stable. 2024-06-17 12:30:07 -07:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth and netfilter. 2024-06-13 11:11:53 -07:00
rust LoongArch changes for v6.10 2024-05-22 09:43:07 -07:00
samples tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str() 2024-05-22 20:14:47 -04:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.10 (second) 2024-06-08 10:12:33 -07:00
security lsm/stable-6.10 PR 20240617 2024-06-17 18:35:12 -07:00
sound ALSA: seq: ump: Fix swapped song position pointer data 2024-05-31 09:51:44 +02:00
tools 19 hotfixes, 8 of which are cc:stable. 2024-06-17 12:30:07 -07:00
usr kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
virt The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM, 2024-05-19 09:21:03 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: create a list of all built DTB files 2024-02-19 18:20:39 +09:00
.mailmap Including fixes from bluetooth and netfilter. 2024-06-13 11:11:53 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Drop Gustavo Pimentel as PCI DWC Maintainer 2024-03-27 13:41:02 -05:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS 19 hotfixes, 8 of which are cc:stable. 2024-06-17 12:30:07 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.10-rc4 2024-06-16 13:40:16 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

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.