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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:30:27 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:54:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
 > >
 > > Given that the tracer can give the same information, this patch entirely
 > > removes CONFIG_TIMER_STATS.
 > >
 > > Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
 > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
 > > Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
 > 
 > Looks good to me. Let's wait for the 4.11 merge window though. I'm
 > assuming I'll get this through the tip timer tree..

>From a quick look at the source, powertop uses this file, and appears to
handle it gracefully if it fails to open, but it will lose functionality
to determine if a timer is deferred.

	Dave

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