Re: [PATCH v15 2/7] timers: Add the available mask in timer migration

From: Thomas Gleixner

Date: Wed Nov 19 2025 - 10:56:50 EST


On Thu, Nov 13 2025 at 09:33, Gabriele Monaco wrote:

Can we please consistently have 'timers/migration:' as prefix like the
other existing commits for this series?

That allows to write this subject line in a coherent way:

timers/migration: Provide and use cpumask for available CPUs

or something like that.

Why did I waste time for documenting all of this?

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-tip.html#patch-subject

"‘git log path/to/file’ should give you a reasonable hint in most cases."

Is it really that hard?

> Keep track of the CPUs available for timer migration in a cpumask. This
> prepares the ground to generalise the concept of unavailable CPUs.
>
> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@xxxxxxxxxx>

Aside of the nit above:

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>