From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: revert to show stack information in /proc/{pid}/status
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:09:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1262362193.14370.6.camel@wall-e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pr5t7rli.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Am Freitag, den 01.01.2010, 16:49 +0100 schrieb Andi Kleen:
> KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:
> >
> > Anyway, I revert the regresstion patch as other regression patches. if you really want
> > this feature, you have three options.
> >
> > 1. create new /proc file instead to use /proc/pid/status.
> > 2. improve performance until typical use-case don't notice regression.
> > 3. change ps and other /proc related userland implementation and resubmit this patch.
> >
> > But even if you choose anything, You have to test both its functional and performance
> > _before_ submitting kernel patch.
>
>
> 4. Leave everything alone (revert all the commits) and use a ptrace
> based tool to get this information when you need it.
>
Without the stack_start and the fix for the bogus x86_64 KSTP_ESP it
wouldn't be possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-01 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-31 14:12 [PATCH] proc: revert to show stack information in /proc/{pid}/status KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-12-31 15:48 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-01 14:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-01 15:10 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-01 22:05 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-01-01 22:21 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-02 5:53 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-02 8:26 ` Stefani Seibold
2010-01-02 14:05 ` [PATCH] partial revert to show stack information in /proc/<pid>/status Stefani Seibold
2010-01-05 5:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-02 1:42 ` [PATCH] proc: revert to show stack information in /proc/{pid}/status Andi Kleen
2010-01-01 15:49 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-01 16:09 ` Stefani Seibold [this message]
2010-01-07 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-08 0:21 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-08 0:34 ` Andrew Morton
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