Re: [PATCH 00/89] Major reorganization of <linux/sched.h>

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Feb 07 2017 - 03:08:30 EST


On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > There were all those small things in there (Peter pointed out those cpumask
> > things I wouldn't for the life of me have noticed) that were really subtle, and
> > were really hidden by the fact that there was just a lot of non-semantic
> > changes.
>
> I think the ->cpus_allowed bugs Peter noticed are pre-existing - that patch
> doesn't intend to make any semantic changes.

Correct, those are pre-existing, just noticed then (again) because the
changes made me look at the code.