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Message-ID: <ZO/DiqemqXqj8P3u@agluck-desk3>
Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:32:42 -0700
From:   Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>
Cc:     Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/24] x86/resctrl: Track the number of dirty RMID a
 CLOSID has

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 05:53:03PM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> Something on my eternal-todo-list is to make the filesystem parts of resctrl a loadable
> module (if Tony doesn't get there first!). That would flush this sort of thing out.
> Last time I triggered resctrl_exit() manually not all of the files got cleaned up - I
> haven't investigated it further.

James,

I looked at going to a full loadable module approach for about 3 seconds,
and found none of the kernfs support functions are exported. So I also
put that on the eternal-todo-list :-)

There are possibly a few other functions that need exporting like
get_cpu_cacheinfo(), and two or three others from the "perf"
code for pseudo-lock debugfs support.

-Tony

P.S. Latest version of my re-write is at:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux.git/log/?h=resctrl2_v65rc7

Well, almost latest. I haven't pushed the changes to auto-load all the
modules for basic X86 functions based on X86_FEATURE_* bits.