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RE: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] Xen in a 32 way system

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] Xen in a 32 way system
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:22:10 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 01 June 2006 19:09
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh; 
> Uros Trebec; Ryan Harper; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
> Pablo Montesinos
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RE: [Xen-users] Xen in a 32 way system
> 
> 
> On 1 Jun 2006, at 18:59, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> 
> > Isn't it a bug that we don't check for -EINVAL in the line here:
> >         for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
> >                 rc = HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op(VCPUOP_is_up, i, NULL);
> >                 if (rc == -ENOENT)
> >                         break;
> >                 cpu_set(i, cpu_possible_map);
> >         }
> >
> > If NR_CPUS in Linux is bigger than 32, then rc = -EINVAL, 
> not -ENOENT 
> > when it returns from the vcpu_op, because the first check 
> is to see if 
> > vcpuid is >=32...
> >
> > Checking if (rc < 0) would be better, I should think...
> 
> Yes, the current code is rather mad. I'll fix it.

Of course, if NR_CPUS is 32, it shouldn't matter... 

Pablo, can you check the CONFIG_NR_CPUS in your .config for your
linux-2.6.16.13-xen? As in my system, NR_CPUS = 32.. 

--
Mats
> 
>   -- Keir
> 
> 
> 


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