"Resource Control" is a very broad term for this CPU feature, and a term that is also associated with containers, cgroups etc. This can easily cause confusion.
Make the user prompt more specific. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) As somebody who works in "resource control", this prompt in oldconfig certainly had me go wtf. Can we do something more specific? Not insisting on this name, and I haven't renamed all the config symbols yet, but we should probably fix this before 5.0 is released. Thanks! diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 26387c7bf305..426677b759c0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -447,11 +447,11 @@ config RETPOLINE support for full protection. The kernel may run slower. config X86_RESCTRL - bool "Resource Control support" + bool "x86 cache control support" depends on X86 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD) select KERNFS help - Enable Resource Control support. + Enable x86 cache control support. Provide support for the allocation and monitoring of system resources usage by the CPU. -- 2.20.1
