On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 4:01 PM Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:32:48 +0800 Aubrey Li <aubrey...@linux.intel.com>
> > 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
