linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/3] isolcpus: undeprecate on documentation

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Date:   Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:22:17 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...driver.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@...driver.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] isolcpus: undeprecate on documentation

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:21:20PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> isolcpus is used to control steering of interrupts to managed_irqs and
> kernel threads, therefore its incorrect to state that its deprecated.
> 
> Remove deprecation warning.
> 
> Suggested-by: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
> 
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |    1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -1926,7 +1926,6 @@
>  			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
>  
>  	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
> -			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
>  			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
>  

It's still an absolute horrible piece of crap though. nozh_full piling
more and more shit on it doesn't make it more shiny.