Re: [PATCH] proc/softirqs: change softirqs info from possile_cpu to online_cpu

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Nov 11 2024 - 21:19:42 EST


On Sat, Nov 09 2024 at 00:22, enlin mu wrote:

> From: Enlin Mu <enlin.mu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> like /proc/interrupts,/proc/softirqs which shows
> the number of softirq for each online CPU

This changes the output format of a file which is used by various
tools, i.e. this is an ABI change.

Did you validate that none of these tools relies on consecutive CPU
numbers even when CPUs in the middle of the number space are offline?

Thanks,

tglx