Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] irq: export kstat_irqs

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, Dec 05 2020 at 12:39, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 06:43:37PM -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
>> To try and detect potential interrupt storms that
>> have been occurring with tpm_tis devices it was suggested
>> to use kstat_irqs() to get the number of interrupts.
>> Since tpm_tis can be built as a module it needs kstat_irqs
>> exported.
>
> I think you should also have a paragraph explicitly stating that
> i915_pmu.c contains a duplicate of kstat_irqs() because it is not
> exported as of today. It adds a lot more weight to this given that
> there is already existing mainline usage (kind of).

It's abusage and just the fact that it exists is not an argument by
itself.

Thanks,

        tglx