[tip: timers/core] timers/migration: Turn tmigr_hierarchy level_list into a flexible array

From: tip-bot2 for Rosen Penev

Date: Tue Jun 02 2026 - 15:38:17 EST


The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 45b49d7e3ab6490a9b957a4075344093c43d1f7e
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/45b49d7e3ab6490a9b957a4075344093c43d1f7e
Author: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 22 May 2026 16:16:18 -07:00
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:34:03 +02:00

timers/migration: Turn tmigr_hierarchy level_list into a flexible array

The level_list array is allocated separately right after the parent
struct. The size of the array is already known.

Move level_list to the struct tail as a flexible array member and fold the
two allocations into a single kzalloc_flex().

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:Opus-4.7
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522231618.41622-1-rosenp@xxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/time/timer_migration.c | 16 +++++-----------
kernel/time/timer_migration.h | 5 ++---
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/timer_migration.c b/kernel/time/timer_migration.c
index 8ba53ad..548d849 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer_migration.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timer_migration.c
@@ -1963,17 +1963,15 @@ static struct tmigr_hierarchy *tmigr_get_hierarchy(int cpu)
if (hier)
return hier;

- hier = kzalloc(sizeof(*hier), GFP_KERNEL);
+ hier = kzalloc_flex(*hier, level_list, tmigr_hierarchy_levels);
if (!hier)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

hier->cpumask = kzalloc(cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!hier->cpumask)
- goto err;
-
- hier->level_list = kzalloc_objs(struct list_head, tmigr_hierarchy_levels);
- if (!hier->level_list)
- goto err;
+ if (!hier->cpumask) {
+ kfree(hier);
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+ }

for (int i = 0; i < tmigr_hierarchy_levels; i++)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&hier->level_list[i]);
@@ -1982,10 +1980,6 @@ static struct tmigr_hierarchy *tmigr_get_hierarchy(int cpu)
list_add_tail(&hier->node, &tmigr_hierarchy_list);

return hier;
-err:
- kfree(hier->cpumask);
- kfree(hier);
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}

static int tmigr_connect_old_root(struct tmigr_hierarchy *hier, int cpu,
diff --git a/kernel/time/timer_migration.h b/kernel/time/timer_migration.h
index ea8db95..31735dd 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timer_migration.h
+++ b/kernel/time/timer_migration.h
@@ -9,19 +9,18 @@
* struct tmigr_hierarchy - a hierarchy associated to a given CPU capacity.
* Homogeneous systems have only one hierarchy.
* Heterogenous have one hierarchy per CPU capacity.
- * @level_list: Per level lists of tmigr groups
* @cpumask: CPUs belonging to this hierarchy
* @root: The current root of the hierarchy
* @capacity: CPU capacity associated to this hierarchy
* @node: Node in the global hierarchy list
+ * @level_list: Per level lists of tmigr groups
*/
struct tmigr_hierarchy {
- struct list_head *level_list;
struct cpumask *cpumask;
struct tmigr_group *root;
unsigned long capacity;
struct list_head node;
-
+ struct list_head level_list[];
};

/**