linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] arch_topology: Make cpu

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Date:   Thu, 7 Mar 2019 15:04:07 +0000
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>
Cc:     Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...il.com>,
        Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@...eaurora.org>,
        dietmar.eggemann@....com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        will.deacon@....com, catalin.marinas@....com,
        morten.rasmussen@....com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        jeremy.linton@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] arch_topology: Make cpu_capacity sysfs node as
 ready-only

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:14:03PM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
> On Thursday 07 Mar 2019 at 10:57:50 (+0100), Juri Lelli wrote:
> > If people think it's best to simply make this RO, I won't be against it.
> > Just pointed out a conversation we recently had. Guess we could also
> > make it RW again (properly) in the future if somebody complains.
>
> Right, now is probably the time to give it a go before folks start
> depending on it. And if I am wrong (and that happens more often than I'd
> like unfortunately :-)) and there are users of that thing, then the
> revert should be trivial.
>

+1 on all the points above ;)(I may also be getting things wrong here
but I am not convinced that we can resolve the issue for all the ARM
vendor possible combinations we may have to address)

We should come up with some *magical* cpumask that we can use if we
want to retain this write capability. And only way I see we can do that
is using DT which in turn eliminates the need to have write capability
for this sysfs.

So I am going to ack the $subject patch for now.

--
Regards,
Sudeep