Re: [PATCHv3 7/8] x86: Expose untagging mask in /proc/$PID/arch_status

Dave Hansen
2022-06-10T15:24:43Z

On 6/10/22 07:35, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> +/*
> + * Report architecture specific information
> + */
> +int proc_pid_arch_status(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
> + struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
> +{
> + /*
> + * Report AVX512 state if the processor and build option supported.
> + */
> + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_AVX512F))
> + avx512_status(m, task);
> +
> + seq_printf(m, "untag_mask:\t%#lx\n", mm_untag_mask(task->mm));
> +
> + return 0;
> +}

Arch-specific gunk is great for, well, arch-specific stuff. AVX-512 and
its, um, "quirks", really won't show up anywhere else. But x86 isn't
even the first to be doing this address tagging business.

Shouldn't we be talking to the ARM folks about a common way to do this?