There's no reason to make a copy of the "watchdog_cpus" locally in watchdog_next_cpu(). Making a copy wouldn't make things any more race free and we're just reading the value so there's no need for a copy.
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <diand...@chromium.org> --- kernel/watchdog_buddy.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/watchdog_buddy.c b/kernel/watchdog_buddy.c index 3ffc5f2ede5a..2ef88722c5e7 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog_buddy.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog_buddy.c @@ -10,12 +10,11 @@ static cpumask_t __read_mostly watchdog_cpus; static unsigned int watchdog_next_cpu(unsigned int cpu) { - cpumask_t cpus = watchdog_cpus; unsigned int next_cpu; - next_cpu = cpumask_next(cpu, &cpus); + next_cpu = cpumask_next(cpu, &watchdog_cpus); if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) - next_cpu = cpumask_first(&cpus); + next_cpu = cpumask_first(&watchdog_cpus); if (next_cpu == cpu) return nr_cpu_ids; -- 2.41.0.rc0.172.g3f132b7071-goog _______________________________________________ Kgdb-bugreport mailing list Kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport