On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:46:10 -0600
Nathan Zimmer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On systems with 4096 cores attemping to read /proc/sched_debug fails.
> We are trying to push all the data into a single kmalloc buffer.
> The issue is on these very large machines all the data will not fit in 4mb.
> 
> A better solution is to not us the single_open mechanism but to provide
> our own seq_operations and treat each cpu as an individual record.
> 
> The output should be identical to previous version.
> 
> ...
>
> +     int cpu = (unsigned long)(v - 2);

Again, the meaning of the magic offsets are unobvious to readers of
this code.

> -     SEQ_printf(m, "\n");
> +     if (cpu != -1)
> +             print_cpu(m, cpu);

Same concerns with cpu hotplug.

> +     else
> +             sched_debug_header(m);
>  
>       return 0;
>  }

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