linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Fix use of NULL with find_idlest

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Message-ID: <87a82r3h4y.fsf@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:46:13 +0100
From:   Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@....com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andres Oportus <andresoportus@...gle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Fix use of NULL with find_idlest_group


On Tue, Aug 22 2017 at 11:03, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:39:26AM +0100, Brendan Jackman wrote:
>
>> However the code movement helps - I'll combine it with Vincent's
>> suggestions and post a v2.
>
> Please also split into multiple patches, as I feel this 2/2 does too
> many things. Fixing that this_*_load initialization stuff for instance
> could be a separate patch.

Sure. It was initially multiple patches but there were confusing
dependencies between them, so I squashed it. I don' think that will be a
problem in light of the new suggestions from you & Vincent.

> And unlike what I did, do the whole code movement as a pure code
> movement, without any additional changes.

Will do.