The patch titled Subject: watchdog/buddy: don't copy the cpumask in watchdog_next_cpu() has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is watchdog-buddy-dont-copy-the-cpumask-in-watchdog_next_cpu.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/watchdog-buddy-dont-copy-the-cpumask-in-watchdog_next_cpu.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: watchdog/buddy: don't copy the cpumask in watchdog_next_cpu() Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 18:41:37 -0700 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. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230526184139.7.If466f9a2b50884cbf6a1d8ad05525a2c17069407@changeid Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/watchdog_buddy.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/watchdog_buddy.c~watchdog-buddy-dont-copy-the-cpumask-in-watchdog_next_cpu +++ a/kernel/watchdog_buddy.c @@ -10,12 +10,11 @@ static cpumask_t __read_mostly watchdog_ 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; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx are migrate_pages-avoid-blocking-for-io-in-migrate_sync_light.patch watchdog-perf-define-dummy-watchdog_update_hrtimer_threshold-on-correct-config.patch watchdog-perf-more-properly-prevent-false-positives-with-turbo-modes.patch watchdog-hardlockup-add-comments-to-touch_nmi_watchdog.patch watchdog-perf-rename-watchdog_hldc-to-watchdog_perfc.patch watchdog-hardlockup-move-perf-hardlockup-checking-panic-to-common-watchdogc.patch watchdog-hardlockup-style-changes-to-watchdog_hardlockup_check-is_hardlockup.patch watchdog-hardlockup-add-a-cpu-param-to-watchdog_hardlockup_check.patch watchdog-hardlockup-move-perf-hardlockup-watchdog-petting-to-watchdogc.patch watchdog-hardlockup-rename-some-nmi-watchdog-constants-function.patch watchdog-hardlockup-have-the-perf-hardlockup-use-__weak-functions-more-cleanly.patch watchdog-hardlockup-detect-hard-lockups-using-secondary-buddy-cpus.patch watchdog-perf-add-a-weak-function-for-an-arch-to-detect-if-perf-can-use-nmis.patch arm64-enable-perf-events-based-hard-lockup-detector.patch arm64-enable-perf-events-based-hard-lockup-detector-fix.patch watchdog-hardlockup-keep-kernelnmi_watchdog-sysctl-as-0444-if-probe-fails.patch watchdog-hardlockup-have_nmi_watchdog-must-implement-watchdog_hardlockup_probe.patch watchdog-hardlockup-dont-use-raw_cpu_ptr-in-watchdog_hardlockup_kick.patch watchdog-hardlockup-in-watchdog_hardlockup_check-use-cpumask_copy.patch watchdog-hardlockup-remove-softlockup-comment-in-touch_nmi_watchdog.patch watchdog-buddy-cleanup-how-watchdog_buddy_check_hardlockup-is-called.patch watchdog-buddy-dont-copy-the-cpumask-in-watchdog_next_cpu.patch watchdog-buddy-simplify-the-dependency-for-hardlockup_detector_prefer_buddy.patch watchdog-hardlockup-move-smp-barriers-from-common-code-to-buddy-code.patch watchdog-hardlockup-rename-have_hardlockup_detector_non_arch-to-_perf_or_buddy.patch