From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Subject: Re: [RFC c/r 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v7
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:40:05 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120127184005.GH11086@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120127183155.GE11715@one.firstfloor.org>
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:31:55PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:24:03PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > Sure, I'll try to (btw, where I should send it to? And in which
> > format novadays mans are written? In plain old troff or some
> > human readable asciidocs?) And... should I post man page
> > on LKML as well?
>
> Manpages are written in troff with -man and you would add the ASCII output
> of the manpage to the commit log and send the troff source at some
> point to linux-man.
>
OK, I see, thanks.
> The basic problem is if this interface is at the right level of abstraction.
> I have some doubts on that. It seems like a long term maintenance nightmare to
> me. It may be better to put the loop that would call this into the kernel.
>
Hmm, ie selftest right in kenel?
> >
> > Hmm.. Andi, I seem not following. And?
>
> It just doesn't seem like a very useful thing to compare.
I see.
Cyrill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-27 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-27 17:53 [RFC c/r 0/4] [RFC c/r 0/@total@] A pile in c/r sake Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 17:53 ` [RFC c/r 1/4] fs, proc: Introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry v9 Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 17:53 ` [RFC c/r 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v7 Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 18:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-27 18:11 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 18:15 ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-27 18:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 18:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-28 17:19 ` Michael Kerrisk
2012-01-28 17:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-28 17:36 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 18:31 ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-27 18:40 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2012-01-27 19:40 ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-27 20:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-27 18:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-27 18:45 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 19:10 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 19:37 ` Vasiliy Kulikov
2012-01-27 19:59 ` hpanvin@gmail.com
2012-01-27 20:07 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 20:19 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-27 20:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-27 20:50 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 21:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-27 20:34 ` Glauber Costa
2012-01-27 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-27 20:47 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 17:53 ` [RFC c/r 3/4] c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to /proc/$pid/stat Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 18:29 ` Kees Cook
2012-01-27 20:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-27 20:10 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 17:53 ` [RFC c/r 4/4] c/r: prctl: Extend PR_SET_MM to set up more mm_struct entries Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 18:37 ` Kees Cook
2012-01-27 18:43 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-01-27 20:31 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-01-27 20:28 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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