[07/10] watchdog/buddy: Don't copy the cpumask in watchdog_next_cpu()

Message ID 20230526184139.7.If466f9a2b50884cbf6a1d8ad05525a2c17069407@changeid
State New
Headers
Series watchdog: Cleanup / fixes after buddy series v5 reviews |

Commit Message

Doug Anderson May 27, 2023, 1:41 a.m. UTC
  There's no reason to make a copy of the "watchdog_cpus" locally in
watchdog_next_cpu(). Making a copy wouldn't make things any more race
free and we're just reading the value so there's no need for a copy.

Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
---

 kernel/watchdog_buddy.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
  

Comments

Petr Mladek May 30, 2023, 2:57 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri 2023-05-26 18:41:37, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> There's no reason to make a copy of the "watchdog_cpus" locally in
> watchdog_next_cpu(). Making a copy wouldn't make things any more race
> free and we're just reading the value so there's no need for a copy.
> 
> Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

Best Regards,
Petr
  

Patch

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog_buddy.c b/kernel/watchdog_buddy.c
index 3ffc5f2ede5a..2ef88722c5e7 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog_buddy.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog_buddy.c
@@ -10,12 +10,11 @@  static cpumask_t __read_mostly watchdog_cpus;
 
 static unsigned int watchdog_next_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 {
-	cpumask_t cpus = watchdog_cpus;
 	unsigned int next_cpu;
 
-	next_cpu = cpumask_next(cpu, &cpus);
+	next_cpu = cpumask_next(cpu, &watchdog_cpus);
 	if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)
-		next_cpu = cpumask_first(&cpus);
+		next_cpu = cpumask_first(&watchdog_cpus);
 
 	if (next_cpu == cpu)
 		return nr_cpu_ids;