From: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
To: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>, Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>,
"Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/xive: rework xive_find_target_in_mask()
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:00:07 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebc659de-ebd2-4e4b-a74d-fa490a6b6dc1@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc0c5eff-a55a-4673-806c-00da1177dfea@linux.ibm.com>
On 3/31/26 8:29 AM, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
> Hi Yury,
>
> On 3/30/26 10:34 PM, Yury Norov wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 02:43:27PM +0530, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
>>> Hi Yury.
>>>
>>> On 3/19/26 9:06 AM, Yury Norov wrote:
>>>> Switch the function to using modern cpumask API and drop most of the
>>>> housekeeping code.
>>>>
>>>> Notice, if first >= nr_cpu_ids, for_each_cpu_wrap() iterator
>>>> behaves just
>>>> like for_each_cpu(), i.e. begins from 0. So even if WARN_ON() is
>>>> triggered,
>>>> no special handling is needed.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c | 31
>>>> ++++++-------------------------
>>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
>>>> b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
>>>> index e91ec9036ad8..4e05f678e171 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xive/common.c
>>>> @@ -548,40 +548,21 @@ static void xive_dec_target_count(int cpu)
>>>> static int xive_find_target_in_mask(const struct cpumask *mask,
>>>> unsigned int fuzz)
>>>> {
>>>> - int cpu, first, num, i;
>>>> + int cpu, first;
>>>> /* Pick up a starting point CPU in the mask based on fuzz */
>>>> - num = cpumask_weight(mask);
>>>> - first = fuzz % num;
>>>> -
>>>> - /* Locate it */
>>>> - cpu = cpumask_first(mask);
>>>> - for (i = 0; i < first && cpu < nr_cpu_ids; i++)
>>>> - cpu = cpumask_next(cpu, mask);
>>>> -
>>>> - /* Sanity check */
>>>> - if (WARN_ON(cpu >= nr_cpu_ids))
>>>> - cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
>>>> -
>>>> - /* Remember first one to handle wrap-around */
>>>> - first = cpu;
>>>> + fuzz %= cpumask_weight(mask);
>>>> + first = cpumask_nth(fuzz, mask);
>>>> + WARN_ON(first >= nr_cpu_ids);
>>>> /*
>>>> * Now go through the entire mask until we find a valid
>>>> * target.
>>>> */
>>>> - do {
>>>> - /*
>>>> - * We re-check online as the fallback case passes us
>>>> - * an untested affinity mask
>>>> - */
>>>> + for_each_cpu_wrap(cpu, mask, first) {
>>>> if (cpu_online(cpu) && xive_try_pick_target(cpu))
>>>> return cpu;
>>>> - cpu = cpumask_next(cpu, mask);
>>>> - /* Wrap around */
>>>> - if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)
>>>> - cpu = cpumask_first(mask);
>>>> - } while (cpu != first);
>>>> + }
>>>> return -1;
>>>> }
>>>
>>> Only concern i have, (which could potentially leads to while(1) loop
>>> today if it), is if mask is empty. atleast for_each_cpu_wrap will not
>>> be a while(1) loop.
>>>
>>> So, IMO this is better than what we have today.
>>>
>>> nit: maybe a good to add a WARN_ON(cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) in the end.
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
>> The iterator of for_each_cpu() is always >= nr_cpu_ids when it
>> exits the
>> loop because it's the exit condition. If you want to warn user before
>> returning -1, just do __WARN().
>
> Ok.
>
> It might take a while a while to send the next version out since i am
> working on getting the next version of that paravirt series out soon.
OK, I am pulling this patchset as-is for next merge. I will expect
a followup patch to add a __WARN().
Maddy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-31 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-19 3:36 [PATCH 0/2] powerpc/xive: rework xive_find_target_in_mask() Yury Norov
2026-03-19 3:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "powerpc/xive: Fix the size of the cpumask used in xive_find_target_in_mask()" Yury Norov
2026-03-20 5:57 ` Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya
2026-03-19 3:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/xive: rework xive_find_target_in_mask() Yury Norov
2026-03-29 9:13 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-03-30 17:04 ` Yury Norov
2026-03-31 2:59 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-03-31 5:30 ` Madhavan Srinivasan [this message]
2026-03-20 6:01 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya
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