linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 00/30] x86/resctrl: Move the resctrl filesystem code to /fs/resctrl

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Message-ID: <9107263e-38af-4679-8cf4-8ff51fb69abb@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 14:32:30 -0700
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: James Morse <james.morse@....com>, <x86@...nel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 00/30] x86/resctrl: Move the resctrl filesystem code
 to /fs/resctrl

Dear Boris and x86 maintainers,

On 5/13/25 10:15 AM, James Morse wrote:
> Patches 24-29 should be squashed together when merged, taking the commit message
> of patch 25. It probably makes sense to drop the tags at that point as patch 25 is
> generated by a script, and impossible to review. They are posted like this to allow
> folk to re-generate patch 25, then review the differences on top. Not squashing them
> together would expose a ftrace build warning during bisect. (but who does that!)
> 
> The result  should look like this:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/morse/linux.git mpam/move_to_fs/v11_final

(awaiting this branch's availability)

> 
> I can also post the 'final' version to be picked up if that is less work.
> 
> 
> This series is based on rc5, and can be retrieved from:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/morse/linux.git mpam/move_to_fs/v11
> 
> With the exception of invalid configurations for the configurable-events, there
> should be no changes in behaviour caused by this series. It is now possible for
> throttle_mode to report 'undefined', but no known platform will do this.
> resctrl_exit() is now something that can be called, but x86 doesn't do this.
> 
> The driving pattern is to make things like struct rdtgroup private to resctrl.
> Features like pseudo-lock aren't going to work on arm64, the ability to disable
> it at compile time is added.
> 

Could you please consider this work for inclusion? Please provide guidance on
how to support inclusion of this work ... James mentions a couple of
options above.

Thank you very much.

Reinette