On 03/17/2016 09:42 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 03/17/2016 05:01 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:39:46PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>> But we have to clarify and document whether holes in >>>> cpu_possible_mask are not >>>> allowed at all or if code like the above is simply broken. >>> >>> So the general rule is that cpumasks can have holes, and exempting one >>> just muddles the water. >>> >>> Therefore I'd call the code just plain broken. >> >> Agreed. >> >> That macro is not really helping the readability of the code at all. So a >> simple for_each_possible_cpu() loop would have avoided that wreckage. > > Does the attached work? The rest of blk-mq should deal with holes just > fine, we found some of those issues on sparc. Not sure why this one > slipped through the cracks. This might be better, we need to start at -1 to not miss the first one... Still untested. -- Jens Axboe