Commit 33ad5e4b authored Jun 17, 2010 by Anton Blanchard Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt Jul 08, 2010

powerpc: Linux cannot run with 0 cores

If we configure with CONFIG_SMP=n or set NR_CPUS less than the number of
SMT threads we will set the max cores property to 0 in the
ibm,client-architecture-support structure. On new versions of firmware that
understand this property it obliges and terminates our partition.

Use DIV_ROUND_UP so we handle not only the CONFIG_SMP=n case but also the
case where NR_CPUS isn't a multiple of the number of SMT threads.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

parent 3880ecb0

arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ static void __init prom_send_capabilities(void)
		"ibm_architecture_vec structure inconsistent: 0x%x !\n",
		*cores);
		} else {
		*cores = NR_CPUS / prom_count_smt_threads();
		*cores = DIV_ROUND_UP(NR_CPUS, prom_count_smt_threads());
		prom_printf("Max number of cores passed to firmware: 0x%x\n",
		(unsigned long)*cores);
		}