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Commit 16b18fdf authored by Michael Kelley's avatar Michael Kelley Committed by Wei Liu
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Drivers: hv: Don't assume cpu_possible_mask is dense

Current code allocates the hv_vp_index array with size
num_possible_cpus(). This code assumes cpu_possible_mask is dense,
which is not true in the general case per [1]. If cpu_possible_mask
is sparse, the array might be indexed by a value beyond the size of
the array.

However, the configurations that Hyper-V provides to guest VMs on x86
and ARM64 hardware, in combination with how architecture specific code
assigns Linux CPU numbers, *does* always produce a dense cpu_possible_mask.
So the dense assumption is not currently causing failures. But for
robustness against future changes in how cpu_possible_mask is populated,
update the code to no longer assume dense.

The correct approach is to allocate and initialize the array using size
"nr_cpu_ids". While this leaves unused array entries corresponding to
holes in cpu_possible_mask, the holes are assumed to be minimal and hence
the amount of memory wasted by unused entries is minimal.

Using nr_cpu_ids also reduces initialization time, in that the loop to
initialize the array currently rescans cpu_possible_mask on each
iteration. This is n-squared in the number of CPUs, which could be
significant for large CPU counts.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/SN6PR02MB4157210CC36B2593F8572E5ED4692@SN6PR02MB4157.namprd02.prod.outlook.com/



Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241003035333.49261-3-mhklinux@outlook.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarWei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20241003035333.49261-3-mhklinux@outlook.com>
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