diff --git a/Documentation/cputopology.txt b/Documentation/cputopology.txt
index 45932ec21cee..b41f3e58aefa 100644
--- a/Documentation/cputopology.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cputopology.txt
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ For an architecture to support this feature, it must define some of
 these macros in include/asm-XXX/topology.h:
 #define topology_physical_package_id(cpu)
 #define topology_core_id(cpu)
-#define topology_thread_siblings(cpu)
-#define topology_core_siblings(cpu)
+#define topology_thread_cpumask(cpu)
+#define topology_core_cpumask(cpu)
 
 The type of **_id is int.
-The type of siblings is cpumask_t.
+The type of siblings is (const) struct cpumask *.
 
 To be consistent on all architectures, include/linux/topology.h
 provides default definitions for any of the above macros that are
diff --git a/drivers/base/topology.c b/drivers/base/topology.c
index a778fb52b11f..bf6b13206d00 100644
--- a/drivers/base/topology.c
+++ b/drivers/base/topology.c
@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@
 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
 #include <linux/topology.h>
 
-#define define_one_ro(_name) 		\
+#define define_one_ro_named(_name, _func)				\
+static SYSDEV_ATTR(_name, 0444, _func, NULL)
+
+#define define_one_ro(_name)				\
 static SYSDEV_ATTR(_name, 0444, show_##_name, NULL)
 
 #define define_id_show_func(name)				\
@@ -42,8 +45,8 @@ static ssize_t show_##name(struct sys_device *dev,		\
 	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", topology_##name(cpu));	\
 }
 
-#if defined(topology_thread_siblings) || defined(topology_core_siblings)
-static ssize_t show_cpumap(int type, cpumask_t *mask, char *buf)
+#if defined(topology_thread_cpumask) || defined(topology_core_cpumask)
+static ssize_t show_cpumap(int type, const struct cpumask *mask, char *buf)
 {
 	ptrdiff_t len = PTR_ALIGN(buf + PAGE_SIZE - 1, PAGE_SIZE) - buf;
 	int n = 0;
@@ -65,7 +68,7 @@ static ssize_t show_##name(struct sys_device *dev,			\
 			   struct sysdev_attribute *attr, char *buf)	\
 {									\
 	unsigned int cpu = dev->id;					\
-	return show_cpumap(0, &(topology_##name(cpu)), buf);		\
+	return show_cpumap(0, topology_##name(cpu), buf);		\
 }
 
 #define define_siblings_show_list(name)					\
@@ -74,7 +77,7 @@ static ssize_t show_##name##_list(struct sys_device *dev,		\
 				  char *buf)				\
 {									\
 	unsigned int cpu = dev->id;					\
-	return show_cpumap(1, &(topology_##name(cpu)), buf);		\
+	return show_cpumap(1, topology_##name(cpu), buf);		\
 }
 
 #else
@@ -82,9 +85,7 @@ static ssize_t show_##name##_list(struct sys_device *dev,		\
 static ssize_t show_##name(struct sys_device *dev,			\
 			   struct sysdev_attribute *attr, char *buf)	\
 {									\
-	unsigned int cpu = dev->id;					\
-	cpumask_t mask = topology_##name(cpu);				\
-	return show_cpumap(0, &mask, buf);				\
+	return show_cpumap(0, topology_##name(dev->id), buf);		\
 }
 
 #define define_siblings_show_list(name)					\
@@ -92,9 +93,7 @@ static ssize_t show_##name##_list(struct sys_device *dev,		\
 				  struct sysdev_attribute *attr,	\
 				  char *buf)				\
 {									\
-	unsigned int cpu = dev->id;					\
-	cpumask_t mask = topology_##name(cpu);				\
-	return show_cpumap(1, &mask, buf);				\
+	return show_cpumap(1, topology_##name(dev->id), buf);		\
 }
 #endif
 
@@ -107,13 +106,13 @@ define_one_ro(physical_package_id);
 define_id_show_func(core_id);
 define_one_ro(core_id);
 
-define_siblings_show_func(thread_siblings);
-define_one_ro(thread_siblings);
-define_one_ro(thread_siblings_list);
+define_siblings_show_func(thread_cpumask);
+define_one_ro_named(thread_siblings, show_thread_cpumask);
+define_one_ro_named(thread_siblings_list, show_thread_cpumask_list);
 
-define_siblings_show_func(core_siblings);
-define_one_ro(core_siblings);
-define_one_ro(core_siblings_list);
+define_siblings_show_func(core_cpumask);
+define_one_ro_named(core_siblings, show_core_cpumask);
+define_one_ro_named(core_siblings_list, show_core_cpumask_list);
 
 static struct attribute *default_attrs[] = {
 	&attr_physical_package_id.attr,
diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
index 7673fd92eaf5..f2e56ceee0ea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sfc/efx.c
@@ -863,8 +863,8 @@ static int efx_wanted_rx_queues(void)
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
 		if (!cpu_isset(cpu, core_mask)) {
 			++count;
-			cpus_or(core_mask, core_mask,
-				topology_core_siblings(cpu));
+			cpumask_or(&core_mask, &core_mask,
+				   topology_core_cpumask(cpu));
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h
index e632d29f0544..a16b9e06f2e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/topology.h
@@ -193,5 +193,11 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void);
 #ifndef topology_core_siblings
 #define topology_core_siblings(cpu)		cpumask_of_cpu(cpu)
 #endif
+#ifndef topology_thread_cpumask
+#define topology_thread_cpumask(cpu)		cpumask_of(cpu)
+#endif
+#ifndef topology_core_cpumask
+#define topology_core_cpumask(cpu)		cpumask_of(cpu)
+#endif
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_TOPOLOGY_H */