The group mask is always used in intersection with the group cpus. So, when building the group mask, we don't have to care about cpus that are not part of the group. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Lauro Ramos Venancio Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492717903-5195-2-git-send-email-lvenanci@redhat.com --- kernel/sched/topology.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c @@ -506,12 +506,12 @@ enum s_alloc { */ static void build_group_mask(struct sched_domain *sd, struct sched_group *sg) { - const struct cpumask *span = sched_domain_span(sd); + const struct cpumask *sg_span = sched_group_cpus(sg); struct sd_data *sdd = sd->private; struct sched_domain *sibling; int i; - for_each_cpu(i, span) { + for_each_cpu(i, sg_span) { sibling = *per_cpu_ptr(sdd->sd, i); if (!cpumask_test_cpu(i, sched_domain_span(sibling))) continue;