From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757067AbcBIOBh (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:01:37 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:51806 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756207AbcBIOBf (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:01:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 15:01:33 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Luck, Tony" , Thomas Gleixner , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Brian Gerst , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] x86: Add an archinfo dumper module Message-ID: <20160209140133.GD4119@pd.tnic> References: <20160201115601.GD6438@pd.tnic> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FCE0E4@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160202094147.GA3778@pd.tnic> <20160203104823.GA21257@gmail.com> <20160203110052.GA20682@pd.tnic> <20160204152235.GB5343@pd.tnic> <56B7DAC2.2030506@zytor.com> <20160209122300.GA4878@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160209122300.GA4878@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 01:23:00PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Ease of use I suspect, no need to locate some separate utility. Yeah, that is IMO the main reason which speaks against parsing in userspace. > Also, no need to define an ABI for the information displayed - which > keeps things simpler. Since it's a kernel module there's no real bloat > argument. ... and ontop it is a debugging aid module so won't be present on production systems. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.