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

On 25.04.19 03:50, Li, Aubrey wrote:

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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.
Why not making it depend on those archs that actually support it ?

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.

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