Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86: add cpus_scnprintf function v3

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:51:23PM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> >   * Cleanup usages of cpumask_scprintf in the following files and add
> >     another interface to use cpulist_scnprintf where appropriate.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> >  Part of the change is readability, but also looking towards the future
> >  of 16k/64k/??? # of cpus, the straight mask approach will overflow the
> >  PAGE_SIZE buffer provided (though some pathological cases will overflow
> >  the range method as well.)  So we'll need some advancement in the format
> >  of the printout.
> 
> Btw, I think you can now push for a deprecation of the 'old' mask
> attributes, with the justification you have given above. The other
> possibility is to change sysfs to provide bigger attribute buffers
> (CCed Greg for this).

Huh?

sysfs is "one value per file", if you are getting close to PAGE_SIZE in
any sysfs file, then you are doing something very wrong.

What sysfs file currently is trying to output data this big?

thanks,

greg k-h