linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] x86: avoid confusion over the new RESCTRL config prompt

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Date:   Fri, 1 Feb 2019 19:18:35 +0000
From:   "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
CC:     Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        "Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] x86: avoid confusion over the new RESCTRL config prompt

>> What about
>> 
>> s/X86_RESCTRL/X86_CPU_RESCTRL/g
>
> Good idea.
>
> Tony, Babu, that look okay to you guys as well?

For now.  But very soon we will also have ARM_CPU_RESCTRL, and some of
this code will become generic.  Will we need an arch-independent name for the
bits of code shared by arm and x86?  

-Tony