Re: [PATCH v7 1/1] rcu: Simplify rcu_init_nohz() cpumask handling

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 12:46:34PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 11:00:36AM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
> > In kernels built with either CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL=y or
> > CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, additional CPUs must be added to rcu_nocb_mask.
> > Except that kernels booted without the rcu_nocbs= will not have
> > allocated rcu_nocb_mask.  And the current rcu_init_nohz() function uses
> > its need_rcu_nocb_mask and offload_all local variables to track the
> > rcu_nocb and nohz_full state.
> > 
> > But there is a much simpler approach, namely creating a cpumask pointer
> > to track the default and then using cpumask_available() to check the
> > rcu_nocb_mask state.  This commit takes this approach, thereby simplifying
> > and shortening the rcu_init_nohz() function.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Looks good, thanks!

Queued and pushed, thank you all!

							Thanx, Paul