On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> wrote: > Currently CONFIG_TIMER_STATS exposes process information across namespaces: > > kernel/time/timer_list.c print_timer(): > > SEQ_printf(m, ", %s/%d", tmp, timer->start_pid); > > /proc/timer_list: > > #11: <0000000000000000>, hrtimer_wakeup, S:01, do_nanosleep, cron/2570 > > Given that the tracer can give the same information, this patch entirely > removes CONFIG_TIMER_STATS. > > Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
I don't have an issue with this, but I worry this would break some tooling out there. Should it be marked as deprecated first? Or maybe just pulling the band-aid off is the best way? thanks -john -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
