linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] powerpc/eeh: Fix debugfs_simple

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Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:44:05 +1100
From:   Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>
To:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        Sam Bobroff <sbobroff@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@...il.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] powerpc/eeh: Fix debugfs_simple_attr.cocci
 warnings

On Thu, 2018-12-20 at 02:42 +0000, YueHaibing wrote:
> Use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE rather than DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE
> for debugfs files.
> 
> Semantic patch information:
> Rationale: DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE + debugfs_create_file()
> imposes some significant overhead as compared to
> DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE + debugfs_create_file_unsafe().
> 
> Generated by:
> scripts/coccinelle/api/debugfs/debugfs_simple_attr.cocci
> 
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>

Acked-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>