Re: [PATCH v15 12/12] cpuset: Expose cpuset.cpus.subpartitions with cgroup_debug

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Nov 08 2018 - 10:46:40 EST


On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 10:08:46AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> For debugging purpose, it will be useful to expose the content of the
> subparts_cpus as a read-only file to see if the code work correctly.
> However, subparts_cpus will not be used at all in most use cases. So
> adding a new cpuset file that clutters the cgroup directory may not be
> desirable. This is now being done by using the hidden "cgroup_debug"
> kernel command line option to expose a new "cpuset.cpus.subpartitions"
> file.

One thought I had; would it make sense to make these debug files hidden
("." prefix) ?