----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Zickus" <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> [...] > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:07:00AM -0400, Ulrich Obergfell wrote: >> >> Chris, >> [...] >> I think the user should only be allowed to specify a mask that is a subset of >> tick_nohz_full_mask as only those CPUs don't have a watchdog thread by default. >> In other words, the user should not be able to interfere with housekeeping CPUs. > > Hi Uli, > > I am not sure that is necessary. This was supposed to be a debugging > interface for nohz (and possibly other technologies). I think restricting > it to just tick_nohz makes it difficult to try out new things or debug > certain problems. > > Personally, I feel anyone who will use this sys interface will need to do so > at their own risk. > > > Cheers, > Don Don, o.k. - I understand. Chris, please ignore my idea to add a plausibility check. Regards, Uli -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
