Re: [PATCH v17 1/3] proc: add /proc/<pid>/arch_status

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Thomas Gleixner <hidden>
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2019-04-25 07:20:41
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Li, Aubrey, 2019-04-25
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019, Li, Aubrey wrote:
On 2019/4/25 5:18, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2019, Aubrey Li wrote:
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 5ad92419be19..d5a9c5ddd453 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ config X86
 	select USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
 	select VIRT_TO_BUS
 	select X86_FEATURE_NAMES		if PROC_FS
+	select PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS		if PROC_FS
Can you please stop mixing arch and proc code? There is no point in
enabling this on x86 right away.
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+
+config PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS
+	bool "Enable /proc/<pid>/arch_status file"
Why is this switchable? x86 selects it if PROC_FS is enabled and all other
architectures are absolutely not interested in this.
Above and this, I was trying to avoid an empty arch_file on other architectures.
In previous proposal the entry only exists on the platform with AVX512.
What's the benefit of having a conditional enabled empty file for all other
architectures? Nothing AFAICT.
 
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+/*
+ * Add support for task architecture specific output in /proc/pid/arch_status.
+ * task_arch_status() must be defined in asm/processor.h
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS
+# ifndef task_arch_status
+# define task_arch_status(m, task)
+# endif
What exactly is the point of this macro mess? If an architecture selects
CONFIG_PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS then it has to provide proc_task_arch_status()
and the prototype should be in include/linux/proc_fs.h.
I was trying to address Andy's last comments. If we have the prototype in 
include/linux/proc_fs.h, we'll have a weak function definition in fs/proc/array.c,
which bloats other architectures.

In that way proc_task_arch_status() should be defined in asm/processor.h,
but proc_task_arch_status() has four parameters, I don't want unnecessary
"struct pid_namespace *ns" and "struct pid *pid" leaked into arch headers,
so I defined task_arch_status(m, task) to avoid that.
This #define mess is ugly and pointless. Let the arch select
CONFIG_PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS and if it selects it it has to provide the
function. No waek function required at all.

Thanks,

	tglx
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