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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: share task comm length value to userspace
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 13:39:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110905133903.76cd3a61@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E652E41.1030308@mleia.com>

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:17:05 +0300
Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com> wrote:

> but eventually having that value in
> userspace is really desirable. However in assumption that this value
> is preserved fixed and won't be changed in reasonable perspective,
> the presented approach becomes the most evident and simple.

yeah if it would never change, your change would be the most simple.
but I really don't want to pin that thing down....

> 
> >
> > If we need to export this, we should export it in /proc or /sys
> > somewhere as a dynamic value.....
> >
> Let's do it in a proper way. What's the common practice to export
> such limit values? I suppose via /proc/sys/kernel, please correct me,
> if I'm wrong.

that or /sys/kernel

personally I like /proc/sys/kernel for this kind of thing more, but...
... others might disagree.


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-05 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-05 18:38 [PATCH] sched: share task comm length value to userspace Vladimir Zapolskiy
2011-09-05 19:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-09-05 20:17   ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2011-09-05 20:39     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2011-09-09 23:41       ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-09 23:49         ` Andrew Morton

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