On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 4:01 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:32:48 +0800 Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > The architecture specific information of the running processes could > > > be useful to the userland. Add support to examine process architecture > > > specific information externally. > > > > The implementation looks just fine to me. Have you had any feedback on > > the overall desirability of adding this feature? > > I think I've been the most outspoken, and my not-all-that-strong > opinion is that I don't really like it. /proc/PID/status is already a > bit of a mess, and I don't think we really want it to be a mess that > is different on different architectures. Hence my suggestion of > /proc/PID/x86_status instead. Or we could do /proc/PID/arch_status, I arch_status looks like the right thing to do. Thanks, tglx
