Re: [PATCH 17/25] hrtimer: Implementation of softirq hrtimer handling

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Sep 26 2017 - 08:41:07 EST


On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:23:42PM -0000, Anna-Maria Gleixner wrote:
> @@ -184,6 +188,7 @@ struct hrtimer_cpu_base {
> unsigned int clock_was_set_seq;
> bool migration_enabled;
> bool nohz_active;
> + bool softirq_activated;
> unsigned int hres_active : 1,
> in_hrtirq : 1,
> hang_detected : 1;

Why do we have bools and a bitfield? Should that not all be part of the
bitfield?