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Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:33:07 +0530
From:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
Cc:	vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	randy.dunlap@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fix coding style

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:16:20PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> > Index: current/kernel/sched_debug.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- current.orig/kernel/sched_debug.c
> > +++ current/kernel/sched_debug.c
> > @@ -239,11 +239,7 @@ static int
> >  root_user_share_read_proc(char *page, char **start, off_t off, int count,
> >  				 int *eof, void *data)
> >  {
> > -	int len;
> > -
> > -	len = sprintf(page, "%d\n", init_task_grp_load);
> > -
> > -	return len;
> > +	return sprintf(page, "%d\n", init_task_grp_load);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static int
> > @@ -297,7 +293,7 @@ static int __init init_sched_debug_procf
> >  	pe->proc_fops = &sched_debug_fops;
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED
> > -	pe = create_proc_entry("root_user_share", 0644, NULL);
> > +	pe = create_proc_entry("root_user_cpu_share", 0644, NULL);
> >  	if (!pe)
> >  		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> What about moving this debug stuff under debugfs?
> Please consider using the functions in <linux/debugfs.h> .
> They compile into nothing, if DEBUGFS is not compiled in
> and have already useful functions for reading/writing integers
> and booleans.
> 
Hi Ingo,

This is not debug stuff. It is a tunable to give the root user more
weight with respect to the other users.

-- 
regards,
Dhaval
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