[PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Make NUMA depend on SMP
Srikar Dronamraju
srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Nov 25 15:30:08 AEDT 2020
* Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> [2020-11-24 23:05:45]:
> Our Kconfig allows NUMA to be enabled without SMP, but none of
> our defconfigs use that combination. This means it can easily be
> broken inadvertently by code changes, which has happened recently.
>
> Although it's theoretically possible to have a machine with a single
> CPU and multiple memory nodes, I can't think of any real systems where
> that's the case. Even so if such a system exists, it can just run an
> SMP kernel anyway.
>
> So to avoid the need to add extra #ifdefs and/or build breaks, make
> NUMA depend on SMP.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> index e9f13fe08492..a22db3db6b96 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ config IRQ_ALL_CPUS
>
> config NUMA
> bool "NUMA support"
> - depends on PPC64
> + depends on PPC64 && SMP
> default y if SMP && PPC_PSERIES
>
> config NODES_SHIFT
> --
> 2.25.1
>
--
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju
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