smpboot/threads, watchdog/core: Avoid runtime allocation

smpboot_update_cpumask_threads_percpu() allocates a temporary cpumask at
runtime. This is suboptimal because the call site needs more code size for
proper error handling than a statically allocated temporary mask requires
data size.

Add static temporary cpumask. The function is globaly serialized, so no
further protection required.

Remove the half baken error handling in the watchdog code and get rid of
the export as there are no in tree modular users of that function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912194147.297288838@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/smpboot.c b/kernel/smpboot.c
index 1d71c051a951..ed7507b69b48 100644
--- a/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -344,39 +344,31 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smpboot_unregister_percpu_thread);
  * by the client, but only by calling this function.
  * This function can only be called on a registered smp_hotplug_thread.
  */
-int smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread,
-					 const struct cpumask *new)
+void smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread,
+					  const struct cpumask *new)
 {
 	struct cpumask *old = plug_thread->cpumask;
-	cpumask_var_t tmp;
+	static struct cpumask tmp;
 	unsigned int cpu;
 
-	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&tmp, GFP_KERNEL))
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	get_online_cpus();
 	mutex_lock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
 
 	/* Park threads that were exclusively enabled on the old mask. */
-	cpumask_andnot(tmp, old, new);
-	for_each_cpu_and(cpu, tmp, cpu_online_mask)
+	cpumask_andnot(&tmp, old, new);
+	for_each_cpu_and(cpu, &tmp, cpu_online_mask)
 		smpboot_park_thread(plug_thread, cpu);
 
 	/* Unpark threads that are exclusively enabled on the new mask. */
-	cpumask_andnot(tmp, new, old);
-	for_each_cpu_and(cpu, tmp, cpu_online_mask)
+	cpumask_andnot(&tmp, new, old);
+	for_each_cpu_and(cpu, &tmp, cpu_online_mask)
 		smpboot_unpark_thread(plug_thread, cpu);
 
 	cpumask_copy(old, new);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
 	put_online_cpus();
-
-	free_cpumask_var(tmp);
-
-	return 0;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread);
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, cpu_hotplug_state) = ATOMIC_INIT(CPU_POST_DEAD);