[PATCH 2/3] rfi-flush: Make it possible to call setup_rfi_flush() again

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira]

On 03/13/2018 03:36 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:13:11 -0300
> Mauricio Faria de Oliveira<mauricfo at linux.vnet.ibm.com>  wrote:
> 
>> On 03/13/2018 02:59 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
>>> Maybe it would make more sense to move the messages to the function
>>> that actually patches in the instructions?

>> That helps, but if the instructions are not patched (e.g.,
>> no_rfi_flush) then there is no information about what the system
>> actually supports, which is useful for diagnostics/debugging (and
>> patch verification!:-)  )

> Can't you patch with debugfs in that case?

For development purposes, yes, sure; but unfortunately sometimes only a
dmesg output or other offline/postmortem data is available.

And there's the user case where he is not aware/willing/allowed to use
the debugfs switch.

I still think the correct, informative messages are a good way to go :)

cheers,
mauricio