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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:55:59 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:38:17PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 09:53 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > Hmm, ok. But then the description should be reworded not to be specific to
> > the power architecture (the part of the message about "This also enables
> > accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned systems running on IBM
> > POWER5-based machines."). 
> 
> Which is not very helpful to somebody running on a POWER6 or 7 (which
> also support that option just fine :-)
> 
> So yes, the description should definitely be improved.

All right. How about something like the below?

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 894b073..5f5f8c2 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -276,9 +276,9 @@ config VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
 	  accounting.  This is done by reading a CPU counter on each
 	  kernel entry and exit and on transitions within the kernel
 	  between system, softirq and hardirq state, so there is a
-	  small performance impact.  This also enables accounting of
-	  stolen time on logically-partitioned systems running on
-	  IBM POWER5-based machines.
+	  small performance impact.  In the case of IBM POWER > 5, this
+	  also enables accounting of stolen time on logically-partitioned
+	  systems.
 
 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
 	bool "BSD Process Accounting"