Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 04:43:43PM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: >> On 31/08/17 18:00, Dave Martin wrote: >> > +9. System runtime configuration >> > +-------------------------------- >> > + >> > +* To mitigate the ABI impact of expansion of the signal frame, a policy >> > + mechanism is provided for administrators, distro maintainers and developers >> > + to set the default vector length for userspace processes: >> > + >> > +/proc/cpu/sve_default_vector_length >> >> >> elsewhere in the patch series i see >> >> /proc/sys/abi/sve_default_vector_length >> >> is this supposed to be the same? > > Good spot, thanks! > > /proc/cpu/ was the old location: they should both say /proc/abi/. > I'll fix it. Isn't /sys (or rather sysfs) the preferred location for modern control knobs that mirror the kernels object model or is SVE a special case for extending /proc? > > ---Dave -- Alex Bennée
