Re: [PATCH] proc/softirqs: only show state for online cpus

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> Like /proc/interrupts, no need to output data for nobody.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Keika Kobayashi <kobayashi.kk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If the cpu never be onlined, its statistics always 0. Then, it definitely
no value. In the other hand, if the cpu was offlined dynamically, we don't
know the user want to know the cpus's statistics or not.

Anyway, it's incompatibility change. I don't think this is valuable change.


> ---
>  fs/proc/softirqs.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/softirqs.c b/fs/proc/softirqs.c
> index 62604be..2b32b46 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/softirqs.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/softirqs.c
> @@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ static int show_softirqs(struct seq_file *p, void *v)
>  	int i, j;
>  
>  	seq_puts(p, "                    ");
> -	for_each_possible_cpu(i)
> +	for_each_online_cpu(i)
>  		seq_printf(p, "CPU%-8d", i);
>  	seq_putc(p, '\n');
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < NR_SOFTIRQS; i++) {
>  		seq_printf(p, "%12s:", softirq_to_name[i]);
> -		for_each_possible_cpu(j)
> +		for_each_online_cpu(j)
>  			seq_printf(p, " %10u", kstat_softirqs_cpu(i, j));
>  		seq_putc(p, '\n');
>  	}


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