Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:05:45 +0200 | From | "" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] CPU, NUMA topology ABIs: clarify the overflow issue of sysfs pagebuf |
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 03:38:39PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 4/29/21 3:32 PM, Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) wrote: > > $ strace numactl --hardware 2>&1 | grep cpu > > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/cpu", > > O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 > > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/node/node0/cpumap", O_RDONLY) = 3 > > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/node/node1/cpumap", O_RDONLY) = 3 > > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/node/node2/cpumap", O_RDONLY) = 3 > > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/node/node3/cpumap", O_RDONLY) = 3 > > > > If we move to binary, it means we have to change those applications. > > I thought Greg was saying to using a sysfs binary attribute using > something like like sysfs_create_bin_file(). Those don't have the > PAGE_SIZE limitation. But, there's also nothing to keep us from spewing > nice human-readable text via the "binary" file.
That is correct.
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