linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/5] fs, proc: Add /proc/$pid/tls entry

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Message-ID: <20111014164333.GU14464@moon>
Date:	Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:43:33 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Vagin <avagin@...allels.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/5] fs, proc: Add /proc/$pid/tls entry

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:40:50AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 03:04:19PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > To be able to restart checkpointed tasks we need
> > to know TLS status at dumping time. Export this
> > information by /proc/$pid/tls entry.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
> 
> No objection from me but it would be great if you can go over other
> archs and see how other archs deal with tls just in case.
> 

I'll check, at moment I found it at x86 only (in thread_info) but definitely
need to re-check. Thanks Tejun!

	Cyrill
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