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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:05:20 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: Patch "bounds: support non-power-of-two CONFIG_NR_CPUS"
 failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 02:34:43PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 02:10:10PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 08:21:25AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
> > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > 
> > Looks like you just need a little more fuzz on the patch.
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/bounds.c b/kernel/bounds.c
> > index 9795d75b09b2..a94e3769347e 100644
> > --- a/kernel/bounds.c
> > +++ b/kernel/bounds.c
> > @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ int main(void)
> >  	DEFINE(NR_PAGEFLAGS, __NR_PAGEFLAGS);
> >  	DEFINE(MAX_NR_ZONES, __MAX_NR_ZONES);
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > -	DEFINE(NR_CPUS_BITS, ilog2(CONFIG_NR_CPUS));
> > +	DEFINE(NR_CPUS_BITS, bits_per(CONFIG_NR_CPUS));
> >  #endif
> >  	DEFINE(SPINLOCK_SIZE, sizeof(spinlock_t));
> >  	/* End of constants */
> 
> Now fuzzed, thanks.

But it breaks the build on 4.19.y, so I'll go drop it from there.  If
you want it added there, please provide a working fix.

thanks,

greg k-h