"git log --oneline drivers/pci/pci-driver.c" tells you that the subject should be something like: PCI: Restrict probe functions to housekeeping CPUs On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 12:12:25PM -0400, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote: > From: Alex Belits <abelits@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > pci_call_probe() prevents the nesting of work_on_cpu() > for a scenario where a VF device is probed from work_on_cpu() > of the Physical device. > This patch replaces the cpumask used in pci_call_probe() > from all online CPUs to only housekeeping CPUs. This is to > ensure that there are no additional latency overheads > caused due to the pinning of jobs on isolated CPUs. s/Physical/PF/ (since you used "VF" earlier, this should match that) s/This patch replaces/Replace the/ Please rewrap this to fill a 75 column line (so it doesn't overflow 80 columns when "git log" adds 4 spaces). This should be two paragraphs; add a blank line between them. > Signed-off-by: Alex Belits <abelits@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/pci/pci-driver.c | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c > index da6510af1221..449466f71040 100644 > --- a/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c > +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ > #include <linux/string.h> > #include <linux/slab.h> > #include <linux/sched.h> > +#include <linux/sched/isolation.h> > #include <linux/cpu.h> > #include <linux/pm_runtime.h> > #include <linux/suspend.h> > @@ -333,6 +334,7 @@ static int pci_call_probe(struct pci_driver *drv, struct pci_dev *dev, > const struct pci_device_id *id) > { > int error, node, cpu; > + int hk_flags = HK_FLAG_DOMAIN | HK_FLAG_WQ; > struct drv_dev_and_id ddi = { drv, dev, id }; > > /* > @@ -353,7 +355,8 @@ static int pci_call_probe(struct pci_driver *drv, struct pci_dev *dev, > pci_physfn_is_probed(dev)) > cpu = nr_cpu_ids; > else > - cpu = cpumask_any_and(cpumask_of_node(node), cpu_online_mask); > + cpu = cpumask_any_and(cpumask_of_node(node), > + housekeeping_cpumask(hk_flags)); > > if (cpu < nr_cpu_ids) > error = work_on_cpu(cpu, local_pci_probe, &ddi); > -- > 2.18.4 >