linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING

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Date:   Wed, 3 May 2023 13:06:44 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN option

Le Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 04:33:48PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :
> This option was created in commit 554b0004d0ec4 ("vtime: Add
> HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN Kconfig") for architectures to indicate
> they support the 64-bit cputime_t required for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN.
> 
> The cputime_t type has since been removed, so this doesn't have any
> meaning. Remove it.

Well, cputime_t has disappeared but not the u64 type used
for task/cpu time accounting.

But now we have the vtime seqcount. Though we already had it
when we introduced that Kconfig switch so I can't remember why
this was necessary :-(

It _looks_ OK but I might be missing something...

Thanks.