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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Dump interesting arch/platform info
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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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