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Date:   Tue, 9 Apr 2019 18:05:48 -0700
From:   Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 11/14] x86/watchdog/hardlockup: Add an HPET-based
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 01:03:40PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:05:15AM -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hpet.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hpet.h
> > index 4d559e0c746f..15dc3b576496 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hpet.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hpet.h
> > @@ -123,12 +123,24 @@ struct hpet_hld_data {
> >  	u32		num;
> >  	u32		flags;
> >  	u64		ticks_per_second;
> > +	u32		handling_cpu;
> > +	struct cpumask	cpu_monitored_mask;
> > +	struct msi_msg	msi_msg;
> >  };
> 
> Please don't use struct cpumask unless you absolutely have to.
> 
> The above is better written as:
> 
> 
> 	struct hpet_hld_data {
> 		...
> 		unsigned long cpumask[0];
> 	};
> 
> and allocated using:
> 
> 	struct hpet_hld_data *hhd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hpet_hld_data) + cpumask_size());
> 
> and used as:
> 
> 	to_cpumask(hhd->cpumask);

Thanks for your feedback, Peter!

Sure. I will make this change.

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo