Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Warn about use of smt_snooze_delay

2020-06-29 Thread Michael Ellerman
Joel Stanley writes: > It's not done anything for a long time. Save the percpu variable, and > emit a warning to remind users to not expect it to do anything. > > Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley > --- > arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c | 41 + > 1 file changed, 14 inse

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Warn about use of smt_snooze_delay

2020-06-29 Thread Joel Stanley
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 10:42, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 07:33:49PM +0930, Joel Stanley wrote: > > It's not done anything for a long time. Save the percpu variable, and > > emit a warning to remind users to not expect it to do anything. > > > > Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Warn about use of smt_snooze_delay

2020-06-29 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 07:33:49PM +0930, Joel Stanley wrote: > It's not done anything for a long time. Save the percpu variable, and > emit a warning to remind users to not expect it to do anything. > > Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley The only known user of "smt_snooze_delay" is the "ppc64_cpu" whi

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Warn about use of smt_snooze_delay

2020-06-25 Thread Tyrel Datwyler
On 6/25/20 3:29 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > Le 25/06/2020 à 12:03, Joel Stanley a écrit : >> It's not done anything for a long time. Save the percpu variable, and >> emit a warning to remind users to not expect it to do anything. > > Why not just drop the file entirely  if it is useless ?

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Warn about use of smt_snooze_delay

2020-06-25 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 25/06/2020 à 12:03, Joel Stanley a écrit : It's not done anything for a long time. Save the percpu variable, and emit a warning to remind users to not expect it to do anything. Why not just drop the file entirely if it is useless ? Christophe Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley --- arch/p

[PATCH] powerpc: Warn about use of smt_snooze_delay

2020-06-25 Thread Joel Stanley
It's not done anything for a long time. Save the percpu variable, and emit a warning to remind users to not expect it to do anything. Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley --- arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c | 41 + 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --