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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	hpa@zytor.com, ak@linux.intel.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com,
	dave.hansen@intel.com, arjan@linux.intel.com,
	adobriyan@gmail.com, aubrey.li@intel.com,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 1/3] proc: add /proc/<pid>/arch_status
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 20:18:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190523201822.cc554d68ec567164bec781e1@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190425143219.102258-1-aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 22:32:17 +0800 Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> The architecture specific information of the running processes
> could be useful to the userland. Add /proc/<pid>/arch_status
> interface support to examine process architecture specific
> information externally.

I'll give this an

Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

from a procfs POV and shall let the x86 maintainers worry about it.

I must say I'm a bit surprised that we don't already provide some form
of per-process CPU-specific info anywhere in procfs.  Something to
piggy-back this onto.  But I can't find such a thing.

I assume we've already discussed why this is a new procfs file rather
than merely a new line in /proc/<pid>/status.  If so, please add the
reasoning to the changelog.  If not, please discuss now ;)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-24  3:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-25 14:32 [PATCH v18 1/3] proc: add /proc/<pid>/arch_status Aubrey Li
2019-04-25 14:32 ` [PATCH v18 2/3] x86,/proc/pid/arch_status: Add AVX-512 usage elapsed time Aubrey Li
2019-04-25 14:32 ` [PATCH v18 3/3] Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add arch_status file Aubrey Li
2019-05-24  3:18 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2019-05-27  7:16   ` [PATCH v18 1/3] proc: add /proc/<pid>/arch_status Li, Aubrey

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