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* [PATCH] x86: avoid confusion over the new RESCTRL config prompt
@ 2019-01-29 22:52 Johannes Weiner
  2019-01-29 23:08 ` Borislav Petkov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Johannes Weiner @ 2019-01-29 22:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Babu Moger, Borislav Petkov; +Cc: linux-kernel

"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 <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
 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


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2019-01-29 22:52 [PATCH] x86: avoid confusion over the new RESCTRL config prompt Johannes Weiner
2019-01-29 23:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-29 23:46   ` Luck, Tony
2019-01-30 16:46   ` Johannes Weiner
2019-01-30 17:19     ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-30 19:56       ` Johannes Weiner
2019-02-01 19:18         ` Luck, Tony
2019-02-02  0:06           ` Borislav Petkov
2019-02-02  9:45         ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/resctrl: Avoid confusion over the new X86_RESCTRL config tip-bot for Johannes Weiner

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