The above condition "if (gpk)" already ensures that gp_kthread is created, so the local variable 'cpu' cannot be negative here. Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h index b10b8349bb2a48b..dcfaa3d5db2cbc7 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h @@ -537,13 +537,11 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(void) pr_err("\tUnless %s kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.\n", rcu_state.name); pr_err("RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:\n"); sched_show_task(gpk); - if (cpu >= 0) { - if (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) { - pr_err("RCU GP kthread last ran on offline CPU %d.\n", cpu); - } else { - pr_err("Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:\n"); - dump_cpu_task(cpu); - } + if (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) { + pr_err("RCU GP kthread last ran on offline CPU %d.\n", cpu); + } else { + pr_err("Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:\n"); + dump_cpu_task(cpu); } wake_up_process(gpk); } -- 2.25.1