Re: [PATCH v2] time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 11:54:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >
 > > Given that the tracer can give the same information, this patch entirely
 > > removes CONFIG_TIMER_STATS.
 > >
 > > Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > > Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
 > 
 > Looks good to me. Let's wait for the 4.11 merge window though. I'm
 > assuming I'll get this through the tip timer tree..

>From a quick look at the source, powertop uses this file, and appears to
handle it gracefully if it fails to open, but it will lose functionality
to determine if a timer is deferred.

	Dave