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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>,
	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 16:49:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pr5t7rli.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100101155630.1A1E.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> (KOSAKI Motohiro's message of "Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:14:23 +0900 (JST)")

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.

That is what I suggested during the original code review and I still think
it's the best solution for such a obscure problem.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-01 15:49 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 [this message]
2010-01-01 16:09       ` Stefani Seibold
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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