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SubjectRe: [stable] cpumask: fix compat getaffinity
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> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:47:03AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > How's this?
> > >
> > > cpumask: use nr_cpu_ids for printing and parsing cpumasks
> > >
> > > Commit a45185d2d "cpumask: convert kernel/compat.c" broke
> > > libnuma, which abuses sched_getaffinity to find out NR_CPUS
> > > in order to parse /sys/devices/system/node/node*/cpumap.
> > >
> > > However, the result now returned reflects nr_cpu_ids, and
> > > cpumask_scnprintf et al. use nr_cpumask_bits which is NR_CPUS (for
> > > CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n) or nr_cpu_ids (for
> > > CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y).
> > >
> > > We should use nr_cpu_ids consistently.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> > > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> >
> > Well, This patch seems to have ABI change. please don't send abi-change to -stable.
>
> Why? There is no such thing as a "stable" internal abi in the kernel,
> and that includes the -stable kernel releases.
>
> If it fixes a bug, that's all the requirement is.

AFAIK, -stable is mainly used for distro and they have many and many
packages. we can't assume no app read /sys files directly.
IOW, To change /sys printing format is a bit risky change. frequently
compatibility breaking natually break code stability.


> > note: I'm not against this patch itself.
>
> Great, then it should be just fine, right?

Yup, fine.


Thanks.





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