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* [PATCH] tracing: hwlat: update old comment
@ 2017-02-13 17:25 Luiz Capitulino
  2017-02-14 20:05 ` Steven Rostedt
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Luiz Capitulino @ 2017-02-13 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: rostedt


The ftrace hwlat does support a cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
index af344a1b..1199fe1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
@@ -322,10 +322,7 @@ static void move_to_next_cpu(bool initmask)
  * need to ensure nothing else might be running (and thus preempting).
  * Obviously this should never be used in production environments.
  *
- * Currently this runs on which ever CPU it was scheduled on, but most
- * real-world hardware latency situations occur across several CPUs,
- * but we might later generalize this if we find there are any actualy
- * systems with alternate SMI delivery or other hardware latencies.
+ * Executes one loop interaction on each CPU in tracing_cpumask sysfs file.
  */
 static int kthread_fn(void *data)
 {
-- 
2.5.5

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