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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2021-04-11 14:31:43 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2021-04-11 14:31:43 +0200
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Merge branch 'for-mingo-rcu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney: - Bitmap support for "N" as alias for last bit - kvfree_rcu updates - mm_dump_obj() updates. (One of these is to mm, but was suggested by Andrew Morton.) - RCU callback offloading update - Polling RCU grace-period interfaces - Realtime-related RCU updates - Tasks-RCU updates - Torture-test updates - Torture-test scripting updates - Miscellaneous fixes Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ For example one can add to the command line following parameter:
where the final item represents CPUs 100,101,125,126,150,151,...
+The value "N" can be used to represent the numerically last CPU on the system,
+i.e "foo_cpus=16-N" would be equivalent to "16-31" on a 32 core system.
+
+Keep in mind that "N" is dynamic, so if system changes cause the bitmap width
+to change, such as less cores in the CPU list, then N and any ranges using N
+will also change. Use the same on a small 4 core system, and "16-N" becomes
+"16-3" and now the same boot input will be flagged as invalid (start > end).
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