On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 12:32 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2019, Aubrey Li wrote: > > > The architecture specific information of the running processes could > > be useful to the userland. Add support to examine process architecture > > specific information externally. > > > > Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > This really lacks > > Cc: Linux API <linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc'ed now. > I certainly understand why you want to expose this info, but would it make more sense to instead add an arch_status file in /proc with architecture-specific info? Or maybe an x86_status field for x86 status, etc.
