From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:30:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170208203027.r6v4apovtyi6nuu3@codemonkey.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzz25AxbG7vJNNKAOEpAJFYnd=D0wJrL-tEN-SREk6kSQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:54:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Given that the tracer can give the same information, this patch entirely
> > removes CONFIG_TIMER_STATS.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
>
> Looks good to me. Let's wait for the 4.11 merge window though. I'm
> assuming I'll get this through the tip timer tree..
>From a quick look at the source, powertop uses this file, and appears to
handle it gracefully if it fails to open, but it will lose functionality
to determine if a timer is deferred.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-08 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-08 19:26 Kees Cook
2017-02-08 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-08 20:30 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2017-02-09 13:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 13:32 ` [kernel-hardening] " Yann Droneaud
2017-02-10 10:18 ` [tip:timers/core] " tip-bot for Kees Cook
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