char: misc: Increase the maximum number of dynamic misc devices to 1048448
authorD Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>
Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:22:12 +0000 (13:22 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:57:38 +0000 (19:57 +0100)
commitab760791c0cfbb1d7a668f46a135264f56c8f018
tree9b511f0d18ede5c8fc0849694af1d1962ed31a87
parent7b51161696e803fd5f9ad55b20a64c2df313f95c
char: misc: Increase the maximum number of dynamic misc devices to 1048448

On AmpereOne, 128 dynamic misc devices is not enough for the per-cpu
coresight_tmc devices.  Switch the dynamic minors allocator to an ida and
add logic to allocate in the ranges [0..127] and [256..1048575], leaving
[128..255] for static misc devices.  Dynamic allocations start from 127
growing downwards and then increasing from 256, so device numbering for the
first 128 devices remain the same as before.

Signed-off-by: D Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114212212.9279-1-scott@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/misc.c