From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] x86/sgx: Add SGX_MemTotal to /proc/meminfo
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:27:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <124ad6ff-ee0d-5d59-0857-f1355578b59b@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e87c5c8f-dead-ebdc-62f1-aa635288671c@intel.com>
On 8/26/21 1:27 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 8/26/21 9:17 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>>> I would prefer to see this listed in Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
>>> as an optional field, depending on CONFIG_X86_SGX.
>>> Or at least put a reference in proc.rst to this doc file and its
>>> supplemental fields.
>>>
>>> thanks.
>> I *can* put it there but I did have reason not to, i.e. these attributes
>> are neither there:
>>
>> DirectMap4k: 3930904 kB
>> DirectMap2M: 29440000 kB
>> DirectMap1G: 1048576 kB
>>
>> And they are implemented in arch specific code.
>>
>> Actually they are undocumented, e.g.
>>
>> $ git grep DirectMap4k
>> arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c: seq_printf(m, "DirectMap4k: %8lu kB\n",
>> arch/s390/mm/pageattr.c: seq_printf(m, "DirectMap4k: %8lu kB\n",
>> arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c: seq_printf(m, "DirectMap4k: %8lu kB\n",
>
> Yeah, we need to add some arch-specific sections to the documentation.
> That *could* just be a reference over to a new file:
>
> Documentation/x86/meminfo.rst
>
> along with whatever other arches provide their own fields too.
>
Yes, either way works. Thanks.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-26 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20210825235234.153013-1-jarkko@kernel.org>
2021-08-25 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] x86/sgx: Add SGX_MemTotal to /proc/meminfo Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-26 0:39 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-08-26 16:17 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-26 20:27 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-26 22:27 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2021-09-01 1:51 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-26 2:19 ` Kai Huang
2021-08-26 16:27 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-27 12:03 ` Kai Huang
2021-09-01 2:02 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-09-01 5:33 ` Kai Huang
2021-09-01 5:41 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-09-01 5:47 ` Kai Huang
2021-09-02 12:15 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-09-02 21:56 ` Kai Huang
2021-09-02 22:14 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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