Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/14] kernel/watchdog: Add a function to obtain the watchdog_allowed_mask

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:05:14AM -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
> index 8fbfda94a67b..367aa81294ef 100644
> --- a/kernel/watchdog.c
> +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ int __read_mostly soft_watchdog_user_enabled = 1;
>  int __read_mostly watchdog_thresh = 10;
>  int __read_mostly nmi_watchdog_available;
>  
> -struct cpumask watchdog_allowed_mask __read_mostly;
> +static struct cpumask watchdog_allowed_mask __read_mostly;
>  
>  struct cpumask watchdog_cpumask __read_mostly;
>  unsigned long *watchdog_cpumask_bits = cpumask_bits(&watchdog_cpumask);

Hurmph, more struct cpumask, ideally this would get converted to
cpumask_var_t, I don't think we need this before the allocators work, do
we?