[RFC PATCH v2 10/14] kernel/watchdog: Add a function to obtain the watchdog_allowed_mask

[Ricardo Neri]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:22:40PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> >  
> > -struct cpumask watchdog_allowed_mask __read_mostly;
> > +static struct cpumask watchdog_allowed_mask __read_mostly;
> 
> That hunk is correct.

I'll send a separate patch with this hunk only.
> 
> >  struct cpumask watchdog_cpumask __read_mostly;
> >  unsigned long *watchdog_cpumask_bits = cpumask_bits(&watchdog_cpumask);
> > @@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ static int __init hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup(char *str)
> >  }
> >  __setup("hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=", hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace_setup);
> >  # endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
> > +
> > +struct cpumask *watchdog_get_allowed_cpumask(void)
> > +{
> > +	return &watchdog_allowed_mask;
> > +}
> 
> That part is pointless as I showed you in the other reply. You don't need
> that mask in your code at all.

Yes. I'll remove this hunk and follow the approach you suggested in your
reply to patch 11.

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
> 
>