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The TREE01 rcutorture scenario intentionally creates confusion as to the number of available CPUs by specifying the "maxcpus=8 nr_cpus=43" kernel boot parameters. This can disable rcutorture's load shedding, which currently uses num_online_cpus(), which would count the extra 35 CPUs. However, the rcutorture guest OS will be provisioned with only 8 CPUs, which means that rcutorture will present full load even when all but one of the original 8 CPUs are offline. This can result in spurious errors due to extreme overloading of that single remaining CPU. This commit therefore keeps a separate set of books on the number of usable online CPUs, so that torture_num_online_cpus() is used for load shedding instead of num_online_cpus(). Note that initial sizing must use num_online_cpus() because torture_num_online_cpus() will return NR_CPUS until shortly after torture_onoff_init() is invoked. Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> [ paulmck: Apply feedback from kernel test robot. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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