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Current code allocates the pcpu_sum array with size num_possible_cpus(). This code assumes the cpu_possible_mask is dense, which is not true in the general case per [1]. If cpu_possible_mask is sparse, the array might be indexed by a value beyond the size of the array. However, the configurations that Hyper-V provides to guest VMs on x86 and ARM64 hardware, in combination with how architecture specific code assigns Linux CPU numbers, *does* always produce a dense cpu_possible_mask. So the dense assumption is not currently causing failures. But for robustness against future changes in how cpu_possible_mask is populated, update the code to no longer assume dense. The correct approach is to allocate and initialize the array using size "nr_cpu_ids". While this leaves unused array entries corresponding to holes in cpu_possible_mask, the holes are assumed to be minimal and hence the amount of memory wasted by unused entries is minimal. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/SN6PR02MB4157210CC36B2593F8572E5ED4692@SN6PR02MB4157.namprd02.prod.outlook.com/ Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241003035333.49261-6-mhklinux@outlook.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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.