Re: [PATCH 09/11] powerpc/64s: Allow control of RFI flush via sysfs

[Michael Ellerman]

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
> Sorry, I wasn't aware about your efforts and did not cc you. I've just
> queued a more generic sysfs interface for this whole mess:

No worries.

> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107214913.096657732@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> It should be simple to extend for write and it would be great if all
> affected architectures could share it.

As you say this has all been a bit of a mess, and as a result we already
have people running kernels with this patch, so we don't want to remove
the 'rfi_flush' file.

But we will certainly add support on powerpc for the files you have
created, in addition to 'rfi_flush'.

cheers