On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 01:42:54PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06 2022 at 10:30, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 18 2022 at 12:28, Yury Norov wrote: > > > >> tick_check_preferred() calls cpumask_equal() even if > >> curdev->cpumask == newdev->cpumask. Fix it. > > > > What's to fix here? It's a pointless operation in a slow path and all > > your "fix' is doing is to make the code larger. Pointless operation in a slow path is still pointless. > In fact cpumask_equal() should have the ptr1 == ptr2 check, so you don't > have to add it all over the place. This adds to the image size: add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 24/3 up/down: 507/-46 (461) The more important, cpumask shouldn't check parameters because this is an internal function. This whole series point is about adding such checks under DEBUG_BITMAP config, and not affecting general case. What about adding cpumask_equal__addr? (Any better name is welcome.) Thanks, Yury