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SubjectRe: [kbuild-all] [PATCH] OPTIONAL: cpufreq/intel_pstate: fix debugfs_simple_attr.cocci warnings
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Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Julia,
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
>> Use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE rather than DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE
>> for debugfs files.
>>
>> Semantic patch information:
>> Rationale: DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE + debugfs_create_file()
>> imposes some significant overhead as compared to
>> DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE + debugfs_create_file_unsafe().
>
> Just curious: could you please expand on what "imposes some
> significant overhead" means?
>

Probably negligible given that this code will only be run once at system
boot and then never used again in production systems. But I guess the
micro-optimization doesn't hurt either.

> Thanks
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