linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Dump interesting arch/platform info

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Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:41:48 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Dump interesting arch/platform info

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:29:03PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> On a high core count, multi-socket, machine I see almost 10K lines
> of output from this.  If you add other things it will become a bit
> of a jumble to parse.

Always thinking big... :-)

> Perhaps the module name "archinfo" is fine, but each separate thing
> it shows should get its own file.  Starting with:
> 
>     /sys/kernel/debug/x86/gdtinfo
> 
> for the current output?

Right, or put everything under a directory "archinfo":

/sys/kernel/debug/x86/archinfo/ ... gdt
				... msrs

				...

and so on.

Yap, sounds better. Thanks!

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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