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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:30:27 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS
On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:54:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Given that the tracer can give the same information, this patch entirely
> > removes CONFIG_TIMER_STATS.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> > Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
>
> Looks good to me. Let's wait for the 4.11 merge window though. I'm
> assuming I'll get this through the tip timer tree..
>From a quick look at the source, powertop uses this file, and appears to
handle it gracefully if it fails to open, but it will lose functionality
to determine if a timer is deferred.
Dave
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