nohz: Remove nohz_cpu_mask

RCU no longer uses this global variable, nor does anyone else.  This
commit therefore removes this variable.  This reduces memory footprint
and also removes some atomic instructions and memory barriers from
the dyntick-idle path.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index e24cebe0e6cb..3e5525630459 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -5980,15 +5980,6 @@ void __cpuinit init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu)
 }
 
 /*
- * In a system that switches off the HZ timer nohz_cpu_mask
- * indicates which cpus entered this state. This is used
- * in the rcu update to wait only for active cpus. For system
- * which do not switch off the HZ timer nohz_cpu_mask should
- * always be CPU_BITS_NONE.
- */
-cpumask_var_t nohz_cpu_mask;
-
-/*
  * Increase the granularity value when there are more CPUs,
  * because with more CPUs the 'effective latency' as visible
  * to users decreases. But the relationship is not linear,
@@ -8200,8 +8191,6 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
          */
         current->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
 
-        /* Allocate the nohz_cpu_mask if CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK */
-        zalloc_cpumask_var(&nohz_cpu_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
         zalloc_cpumask_var(&sched_domains_tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT);
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ