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Date:   Thu, 29 Mar 2018 21:44:02 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To:     Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-all] [PATCH] OPTIONAL: cpufreq/intel_pstate: fix
 debugfs_simple_attr.cocci warnings
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Fabio Estevam wrote:

> Hi Julia,
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> 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