linux-kernel - Re: rcu: NO_HZ_FULL

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Date:   Wed, 17 May 2017 04:04:02 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rcu: NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE leftovers

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 07:48:03AM +0200, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I stumbled upon your commit 1cb830954ef9 ("rcu: Remove nohz_full
> full-system-idle state machine") as ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
> reported that there are some remaining references on the removed
> Kconfig symbol 'NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE'. I couldn't find any commit
> removing them on LKML, and as I am unsure if you like to keep the
> affected code, I want to report it to you.
> 
> To get the report in linux-next:
> $ checkkconfigsymbols.py --diff next-20170516..next-20170517 --find

Good point, that was an oversight on my part.  Just started tests with
the remaining code removed, thank you for reporting it!

							Thanx, Paul