linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/intel_rdt: Add cpus

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Message-ID: <20170331155512.GB5707@krava>
Date:   Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:55:12 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Shaohua Li <shli@...com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/intel_rdt: Add cpus_list rdtgroup file

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:15:22AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> > >  static int rdtgroup_cpus_show(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
> > > -			      struct seq_file *s, void *v)
> > > +			      struct seq_file *s, void *v,
> > > +			      unsigned long flags)
> > >  {
> > > +	const char *fmt = flags & RFTYPE_FLAGS_CPUS_LIST ? "%*pbl\n" : "%*pb\n";
> > 
> > Change to:
> > + const char *fmt = strcmp(of->kn->priv, "cpus") ? "%*pbl\n" : "%*pb\n";
> 
> You couldn't come up with a more horrible hack, right?
> 
> Jiri was right with adding the flag to the base files, just the propagation
> through the callbacks sucks. What's wrong with:
> 
> 	struct rftype *rft = of->kn->priv;
> 	bool list = rtf->flags & RFTYPE_FLAGS_CPUS_LIST;

ok, I'll post the change

thanks,
jirka