[PATCH 0/2] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig, sunxi_defconfig: increase maximum number of CPUs

Tyler Baker tyler.baker at linaro.org
Wed Mar 4 14:46:45 PST 2015


On 4 March 2015 at 14:43, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 February 2015 19:52:26 Tyler Baker wrote:
>> I have recently been reviewing the kernel warnings generated from the kernelci.org boot farm, and have discovered that the HiP04 and a80-optimus boards have more CPUs then the maximum allowed in a few of the ARM defconfigs. This series fixes those warnings by increasing the maximum number of CPUs. I went ahead and boot tested these patches on various boards [1] to insure there are no regressions introduced when increasing the number of CPUs.
>>
>> Any comments would be appreciated. Perhaps we may want to increase these limits further?
>
> I've applied your version. Increasing the limit more would mainly cause memory
> to be wasted, so I don't think that's a good idea until we need to support
> other hardware.

That seems sensible to me, thanks for picking this up.

>
>         Arnd

Tyler



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