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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> Very much depends on what is wanted, but most of the stuff inside those files is 
> very specific to the implementation and pinning any of that to an ABI is like 
> silly.

Why? If the implementation changes then those values lose meaning and the most 
correct value to report is *zero* and that's it.

That's how such things were always done, it was never a problem in the past 15 
years. Why should it start being a problem suddenly?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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