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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] x86: add cpus_scnprintf function v3
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:51:23PM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> > > * Cleanup usages of cpumask_scprintf in the following files and add
> > > another interface to use cpulist_scnprintf where appropriate.
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> > > Part of the change is readability, but also looking towards the future
> > > of 16k/64k/??? # of cpus, the straight mask approach will overflow the
> > > PAGE_SIZE buffer provided (though some pathological cases will overflow
> > > the range method as well.) So we'll need some advancement in the format
> > > of the printout.
> >
> > Btw, I think you can now push for a deprecation of the 'old' mask
> > attributes, with the justification you have given above. The other
> > possibility is to change sysfs to provide bigger attribute buffers
> > (CCed Greg for this).
>
> Huh?
>
> sysfs is "one value per file", if you are getting close to PAGE_SIZE in
> any sysfs file, then you are doing something very wrong.
>
> What sysfs file currently is trying to output data this big?
Currently none. But if NR_CPUS >= 16K and PAGE_SIZE == 4K, than any
file with an cpumask_scnprintf().

Thanks,
Bert
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>


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