Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drivers/perf: hisi: Add driver for HiSilicon PCIe PMU

[John Garry]

On 13/04/2021 10:12, liuqi (BA) wrote:
> > > > I do wonder why we even need maintain pcie_pmu->cpumask
> > > >
> > > > Can't we just use cpu_online_mask as appropiate instead?
> >
> > ?
> Sorry, missed it yesterday.
> It seems that cpumask is always same as cpu_online_mask, So do we need 
> to reserve the cpumask sysfs interface?

I'm not saying that we don't require the cpumask sysfs interface. I am 
just asking why you maintain a separate cpumask, when, as I said, they 
seem the same.

Thanks,
John