From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933511AbcAYSy2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:54:28 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f67.google.com ([209.85.220.67]:34199 "EHLO mail-pa0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933008AbcAYSxm (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:53:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:53:39 -0500 From: Tejun Heo To: Petr Mladek Cc: Andrew Morton , Oleg Nesterov , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , "Paul E. McKenney" , Josh Triplett , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Jiri Kosina , Borislav Petkov , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, Vlastimil Babka , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/22] kthread: Add create_kthread_worker*() Message-ID: <20160125185339.GB3628@mtj.duckdns.org> References: <1453736711-6703-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> <1453736711-6703-5-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1453736711-6703-5-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:44:53PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote: > +struct kthread_worker * > +create_kthread_worker_on_cpu(int cpu, const char namefmt[]) > +{ > + if (cpu < 0 || cpu > num_possible_cpus()) > + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); Comparing cpu ID to num_possible_cpus() doesn't make any sense. It should either be testing against cpu_possible_mask or testing against nr_cpu_ids. Does this test need to be in this function at all? Thanks. -- tejun