[PATCH 0/7] de-stage SW_SYNC validation frawework

[Pavel Machek]

On Mon 2016-08-08 16:08:12, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> 2016-08-07 Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>:
> 
> > On Sun 2016-07-24 15:21:11, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 04:12:45PM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Do you think there is time to get this in for 4.8?
> > > 
> > > No, it was too late on my end, due to travel and vacation, sorry.  I'll
> > > queue it up for 4.9-rc1.
> > 
> > Could we get some documentation what this does? Is it visilble to
> > userspace?
> 
> This interface is only intended for testing and validation, there are
> ioctls on the debugfs file that can be accessed by userspace but there
> isn't any exported kernel header with this info. The tester should know
> and add a internal header to be able to access it. We want to prevent
> people from misusing this feature by not advertising it nor providing
> documentation.

You are playing dangerous game here. debugfs is not normally considered stable,
but otoh... ioctls on debugfs?

Anyway, please provide some documentation. Kernel hackers need to know what this does.

									Pavel
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