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SubjectRe: FAILED: Patch "bounds: support non-power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 06:33:55AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 06:05:20PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 02:34:43PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 02:10:10PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 08:21:25AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > > > The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
> > > > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > > > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > > > > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > > >
> > > > Looks like you just need a little more fuzz on the patch.
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/kernel/bounds.c b/kernel/bounds.c
> > > > index 9795d75b09b2..a94e3769347e 100644
> > > > --- a/kernel/bounds.c
> > > > +++ b/kernel/bounds.c
> > > > @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ int main(void)
> > > > DEFINE(NR_PAGEFLAGS, __NR_PAGEFLAGS);
> > > > DEFINE(MAX_NR_ZONES, __MAX_NR_ZONES);
> > > > #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > > > - DEFINE(NR_CPUS_BITS, ilog2(CONFIG_NR_CPUS));
> > > > + DEFINE(NR_CPUS_BITS, bits_per(CONFIG_NR_CPUS));
> > > > #endif
> > > > DEFINE(SPINLOCK_SIZE, sizeof(spinlock_t));
> > > > /* End of constants */
> > >
> > > Now fuzzed, thanks.
> >
> > But it breaks the build on 4.19.y, so I'll go drop it from there. If
> > you want it added there, please provide a working fix.
>
> Looks like bits_per() didn't exist in 4.19. It was added as part of commit 69842cba9ace84849bb9b8edcdf2cefccd97901c
> Author: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com>
> Date: Fri Jun 21 09:42:02 2019 +0100
>
> sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting
>
> Up to you; I can provide bits_per() to 4.19 which will aid backporting
> other fixes (we currently have 17 uses of bits_per() in 6.9), or we can
> just drop this whole thing for 4.19.
>

At this point in time for 4.19, unless it's really criticial, I would
just say drop it.

thanks,

greg k-h

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