Re: [PATCH] padata: Replace delayed timer with immediate workqueue in padata_reorder
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Jul 18 2019 - 10:56:50 EST
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 10:27:30AM -0400, Daniel Jordan wrote:
>
> That's what I expected when I first saw it too, but nr_cpumask_bits is returned
> to signal the end of the iteration. The patch always passes 0 for the 'start'
> argument, so when cpumask_next_wrap is called with the last cpu in the mask,
> the end-of-iteration case is triggered. To reassure you and myself :) I ran it
> and got the expected crash.
>
> Passing pd->cpu for the start argument instead avoids that problem, but the
> one-cpu-in-mask case still needs handling because cpumask_next_wrap always
> signals end of iteration for that, hence the cpumask_weight check.
My bad. I should have set start to -1 to make it do the right thing.
Thanks,
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