Re: [kbuild-all] [PATCH] OPTIONAL: cpufreq/intel_pstate: fix debugfs_simple_attr.cocci warnings

[Julia Lawall]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Fabio Estevam wrote:

> Hi Julia,
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  Use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE rather than DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE
> >  for debugfs files.
> >
> > Semantic patch information:
> >  Rationale: DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE + debugfs_create_file()
> >  imposes some significant overhead as compared to
> >  DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE + debugfs_create_file_unsafe().
>
> Just curious: could you please expand on what "imposes some
> significant overhead" means?

I don't know.  I didn't write this rule.  Nicolai, can you explain?

thanks,
julia