linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/sched: removed unused *cpumask ptr in kernel/sched/sched.h

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Message-ID: <20251021111132.GP3245006@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:11:32 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
Cc: Aditya Gollamudi <adigollamudi@...il.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
	juri.lelli@...hat.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
	dietmar.eggemann@....com, rostedt@...dmis.org, bsegall@...gle.com,
	mgorman@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/sched: removed unused *cpumask ptr in
 kernel/sched/sched.h

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 09:58:29AM +0200, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On 20/10/25 15:17, Aditya Gollamudi wrote:
> > From: Adi Gollamudi <adigollamudi@...il.com>
> >
> > v2: fix formatting and style errors found by checkpatch.pl. no actual functional changes
> >
> > v1: remove use of cpumask ptr initialized at the top of the mm_cid_get() function to nothing.
> > remove initialization of cpumask ptr in the same function, "cpumask = mm_cidmask(mm);" because
> > it is not used later.
> >
> 
> Please see Documentation/process/submitting-patches; the version changelogs
> don't belong in the patch body but should rather be put after the '---'
> marker line.
> 

Also, please search the archives before sending patches like this.
You'll find I have at least 5 versions of this patch already, and I'm
still not convinced its worth applying.