Re: [PATCH 01/10] cpumask: Introduce cpumask_any_online_but

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Vikas Shivappa wrote:
> There is currently no cpumask helper function to pick a "random" cpu
> from a mask which is also online.
> 
> cpumask_any_online_but() does that which is similar to cpumask_any_but()
> but also returns a cpu that is online.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/cpumask.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/cpumask.h b/include/linux/cpumask.h
> index 27e285b..ea63b65 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cpumask.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cpumask.h
> @@ -548,6 +548,24 @@ static inline void cpumask_copy(struct cpumask *dstp,
>  #define cpumask_of(cpu) (get_cpu_mask(cpu))
>  
>  /**
> + * cpumask_any_online_but - return a "random"  and online cpu in a cpumask,
> + * but not this one
> + * @mask: the input mask to search
> + * @cpu: the cpu to ignore
> + *
> + * Returns >= nr_cpu_ids if no cpus set.
> +*/
> +static inline unsigned int cpumask_any_online_but(const struct cpumask *mask,
> +					   unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	static cpumask_t tmp;

How is that supposed to work?

You cannot expect, that all potential users of this function are
magically serialized.

> +
> +	cpumask_and(&tmp, cpu_online_mask, mask);
> +	cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &tmp);
> +	return cpumask_any(&tmp);

Thanks,

	tglx