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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] x86/sgx: Add SGX_MemTotal to /proc/meminfo
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:27:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e87c5c8f-dead-ebdc-62f1-aa635288671c@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e1ff36db0e7ed909653b6adb45094cc459dbad0b.camel@kernel.org>

On 8/26/21 9:17 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>> I would prefer to see this listed in Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
>> as an optional field, depending on CONFIG_X86_SGX.
>> Or at least put a reference in proc.rst to this doc file and its
>> supplemental fields.
>>
>> thanks.
> I *can* put it there but I did have reason not to, i.e. these attributes
> are neither there:
> 
> DirectMap4k:     3930904 kB
> DirectMap2M:    29440000 kB
> DirectMap1G:     1048576 kB
> 
> And they are implemented in arch specific code.
> 
> Actually they are undocumented, e.g.
> 
> $ git grep DirectMap4k
> arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pgtable.c:     seq_printf(m, "DirectMap4k:    %8lu kB\n",
> arch/s390/mm/pageattr.c:        seq_printf(m, "DirectMap4k:    %8lu kB\n",
> arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:   seq_printf(m, "DirectMap4k:    %8lu kB\n",

Yeah, we need to add some arch-specific sections to the documentation.
That *could* just be a reference over to a new file:

	Documentation/x86/meminfo.rst

along with whatever other arches provide their own fields too.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-26 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-25 23:52 [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/sgx: Add the missing ifdef for sgx_set_attribute() Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-25 23:52 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] x86/sgx: Add SGX_MemTotal to /proc/meminfo Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-26  0:39   ` Randy Dunlap
2021-08-26 16:17     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-26 20:27       ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2021-08-26 22:27         ` Randy Dunlap
2021-09-01  1:51           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-26  2:19   ` Kai Huang
2021-08-26 16:27     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-27 12:03       ` Kai Huang
2021-09-01  2:02         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-09-01  5:33           ` Kai Huang
2021-09-01  5:41             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-09-01  5:47               ` Kai Huang
2021-09-02 12:15                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-09-02 21:56                   ` Kai Huang
2021-09-02 22:14                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-26  9:58 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/sgx: Add the missing ifdef for sgx_set_attribute() Borislav Petkov
2021-08-26 16:08   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-26 16:35     ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-26 17:11       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-26 17:24         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-26 17:31           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2021-08-26 17:53             ` Borislav Petkov

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