Re: [stable] Removing or restricting timer_stats

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On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 08:25:53AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 4/19/2017 8:01 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> 
> > > > 
> > > > Arjan said it would break powertop, IIRC.
> > > 
> > > So we broke it in 4.11?  That doesn't seem to sound reasonable, how are
> > > you getting away with that?  :)
> > 
> > tglx seemed to think that the same information was available elsewhere?
> 
> tglx was working on patches to make the same information available elsewhere *in the future*.
> 
> unless you also backport that work (and wait for powertop to release/etc)...
> just backporting the interface break without backporting the new interface... leaves things stuck.

So, when 4.11 is released, things are then "stuck"?  How is taking
something that shows up in 4.11 and adding it to 4.10 going to break
anything "worse"?

I think this probably needs to be removed from 4.11 (i.e. added back),
right?

thanks,

greg k-h



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