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

["Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
>
> 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?
Currently none. But if NR_CPUS >= 16K and PAGE_SIZE == 4K, than any
file with an cpumask_scnprintf().

Thanks,
Bert
>
>  thanks,
>
>  greg k-h
>