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    cpumask: limit FORCE_NR_CPUS to just the UP case · 5d272dd1
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Hardcoding the number of CPUs at compile time does improve code
    generation, but if you get it wrong the result will be confusion.
    
    We already limited this earlier to only "experts" (see commit
    fe5759d5 "cpumask: limit visibility of FORCE_NR_CPUS"), but with
    distro kernel configs often having EXPERT enabled, that turns out to not
    be much of a limit.
    
    To quote the philosophers at Disney: "Everyone can be an expert. And
    when everyone's an expert, no one will be".
    
    There's a runtime warning if you then set nr_cpus to anything but the
    forced number, but apparently that can be ignored too [1] and by then
    it's pretty much too late anyway.
    
    If we had some real way to limit this to "embedded only", maybe it would
    be worth it, but let's see if anybody even notices that the option is
    gone.  We need to simplify kernel configuration anyway.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240618105036.208a8860@rorschach.local.home/ [1]
    Reported-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
    Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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