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Message-ID: <87k0d9510z.mognet@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:56:44 +0000
From:   Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
To:     K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>, peterz@...radead.org
Cc:     aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com, efault@....de, gautham.shenoy@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
        mingo@...nel.org, song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com,
        srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/topology: Remove redundant variable and fix incorrect type in build_sched_domains

On 18/02/22 21:57, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
> While investigating the sparse warning reported by the LKP bot [1],
> observed that we have a redundant variable "top" in the function
> build_sched_domains that was introduced in the recent commit
> e496132ebedd ("sched/fair: Adjust the allowed NUMA imbalance when
> SD_NUMA spans multiple LLCs")
>
> The existing variable "sd" suffices which allows us to remove the
> redundant variable "top" while annotating the other variable "top_p"
> with the "__rcu" annotation to silence the sparse warning.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202202170853.9vofgC3O-lkp@intel.com/
>
> Fixes: e496132ebedd ("sched/fair: Adjust the allowed NUMA imbalance when SD_NUMA spans multiple LLCs")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/topology.c | 8 +++-----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> index e6cd55951304..4b757fb8f661 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> @@ -2255,7 +2255,7 @@ build_sched_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map, struct sched_domain_attr *att
>
>                       if (!(sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES) && child &&
>                           (child->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES)) {
> -				struct sched_domain *top, *top_p;
> +				struct sched_domain __rcu *top_p;
>                               unsigned int nr_llcs;
>
>                               /*
> @@ -2280,11 +2280,9 @@ build_sched_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map, struct sched_domain_attr *att
>                               sd->imb_numa_nr = imb;
>
>                               /* Set span based on the first NUMA domain. */
> -				top = sd;
> -				top_p = top->parent;
> +				top_p = sd->parent;
>                               while (top_p && !(top_p->flags & SD_NUMA)) {
> -					top = top->parent;
> -					top_p = top->parent;
> +					top_p = top_p->parent;
>                               }
>                               imb_span = top_p ? top_p->span_weight : sd->span_weight;


So sd starts as the first domain without SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES (but its
direct child has it), and the loop searches upward for a NUMA domain. This
indeed shouldn't require two variables.

I was going to say that while you're at it, you could init top_p to sd
rather than sd->parent in case someone runs a non-default
sched_domain_topology[], but NODE should have neither
SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES nor SD_NUMA, so that doesn't seem required.

Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>

>                       } else {
> --
> 2.25.1

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