Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 Mar 2018 21:44:02 +0200 (CEST) | From | Julia Lawall <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-all] [PATCH] OPTIONAL: cpufreq/intel_pstate: fix debugfs_simple_attr.cocci warnings |
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> 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?
I don't know. I didn't write this rule. Nicolai, can you explain?
thanks, julia
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