On 02/24/2014 08:53 PM, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:

On Saturday 22 February 2014 05:44 AM, Cody P Schafer wrote:

quoted

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/smt-snooze-delay was converted into a NOP
in commit 3fa8cad82b94d0bed002571bd246f2299ffc876b, and now does
nothing. Add a pr_warn() to convince any users that they should stop
using it.

The commit message from the removing commit notes that this
functionality should move into the cpuidle driver, essentially by

Would prefer to cleanup the code since the functionality is moved,
instead of adding to it.

We'd still want users of the interface to use an attribute wired up 
under the cpuidle/ dir, so a warning (to update their software) is still 
needed. As deepthi has noted, cpuidle right now doesn't support changing 
this on a per-cpu basis, so a "cleanup" isn't a simple matter.