On Mon, 12 May 2025 10:49:35 +0800 Jason Xing <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Jason Xing <[email protected]>
> 
> Use for_each_possible_cpu to create per-cpu relayfs file to avoid later
> hotplug cpu which doesn't have its own file.

I don't understand this.  Exactly what problem are we trying to solve?

> Reviewed-by: Yushan Zhou <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/relay.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c
> index 27f7e701724f..dcb099859e83 100644
> --- a/kernel/relay.c
> +++ b/kernel/relay.c
> @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ struct rchan *relay_open(const char *base_filename,
>       kref_init(&chan->kref);
>  
>       mutex_lock(&relay_channels_mutex);
> -     for_each_online_cpu(i) {
> +     for_each_possible_cpu(i) {

num_possible_cpus() can sometimes greatly exceed num_online_cpus(), so
this is an unfortunate change.  It would be better to implement the
hotplug notifier?

>               buf = relay_open_buf(chan, i);
>               if (!buf)
>                       goto free_bufs;
> @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ int relay_late_setup_files(struct rchan *chan,
>        * no files associated. So it's safe to call relay_setup_buf_file()
>        * on all currently online CPUs.
>        */
> -     for_each_online_cpu(i) {
> +     for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
>               buf = *per_cpu_ptr(chan->buf, i);
>               if (unlikely(!buf)) {
>                       WARN_ONCE(1, KERN_ERR "CPU has no buffer!\n");
> -- 
> 2.43.5

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