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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] CPU, NUMA topology ABIs: clarify the overflow issue of sysfs pagebuf
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 07:21:13AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 4/29/21 12:03 AM, Tian Tao wrote:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
> > index 484fc04..82dfe64 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
> > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
> > @@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpulist
> > Date: October 2002
> > Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
> > Description:
> > - The CPUs associated to the node.
> > + The CPUs associated to the node. The format is like 0-3,
> > + 8-11, 14,17. maximum size is PAGE_SIZE, so the tail
> > + of the string will be trimmed while its size is larger
> > + than PAGE_SIZE.
>
> I think it's pretty arguable that truncating output on a real system is
> an ABI break. Doing this would make the interface rather useless.
>
> Don't we need a real solution rather than throwing up our hands?
>
> Do we think >PAGE_SIZE data out of a sysfs file is a worse ABI break or
> something?

There is a real way to get > PAGE_SIZE out of a sysfs file. The LED
developers had to do this when they ran into this same exact problem.
Make it a binary sysfs file and promise to NEVER create such a file
again in the future :)

thanks,

gre gk-h

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