Re: [PATCH 1/2] show isolated cpus in sysfs

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 05:22:12PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 04/24/2015 05:11 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 03:24:27PM -0400, riel@redhat.com wrote:
> >> From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> >>
> >> After system bootup, there is no totally reliable way to see
> >> which CPUs are isolated, because the kernel may modify the
> >> CPUs specified on the isolcpus= kernel command line option.
> >>
> >> Export the CPU list that actually got isolated in sysfs,
> >> specifically in the file /sys/devices/system/cpu/isolated
> >>
> >> This can be used by system management tools like libvirt,
> >> openstack, and others to ensure proper placement of tasks.
> >>
> >> Suggested-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> > 
> > This patch should go through Peterz.
> 
> Oh, fun. That's what I get for getting the get_maintainer.pl
> script, which told me to go through Greg KH instead :)
> 
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/base/cpu.c
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> (supporter:DRIVER CORE,
> KOBJ...)
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)

That's right, I can take this, I missed this the last time Rik sent
these, that's my fault.

thanks,

greg k-h