linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/mce: Move MCE sysfs attributes out of the per-cpu location

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Message-ID: <20120829104018.GD26977@aftab.osrc.amd.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:40:18 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>, tony.luck@...el.com,
	andi@...stfloor.org, ananth@...ibm.com, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/mce: Move MCE sysfs attributes out of the
 per-cpu location

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 03:56:04PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Hmmm.. Can't we just deprecate these? ;) Perhaps we can consider
> adding newer tunables in the right place.

In case you haven't noticed yet: I'm all on your side.

But let me ask you this: these attributes grow to a large number with
a large number of cores but why is this a problem? We have a bunch of
redundant attributes in sysfs, so what?

See what I mean?

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