Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Mar 2015 13:53:02 -0500 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFT v2] x86: move cacheinfo sysfs to generic cacheinfo infrastructure |
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Hello, Borislav.
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:45:27PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Tejun, we have this change in user-visible masks formatting in sysfs > after your bitmaps printing changes: > > -cpu5/cache/index3/shared_cpu_map:00000000,0000003f > +cpu5/cache/index3/shared_cpu_map:3f > > What's the rationale on userspace parsing bitmaps in sysfs, we don't > care?
We were alternating between the two forms depending on CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK before. Now we're always sticking to the shorter format. Please see 513e3d2d11c9 ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and parsing functions").
Thanks.
-- tejun
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