From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
Cc: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>, Andrew Morton OSDL <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:58:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040912045810.GB2660@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094941556.1173.12.camel@cube>
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:11, Roger Luethi wrote:
>> I have a few minor changes coming up as well.
>> One nitpick: As vmexe and vmlib are always 0 for !CONFIG_MMU, we should
>> ifdef them out of the list of offered fields for that configuration (and
>> maybe in nproc_ps_field as well).
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:25:56PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> No. First of all, I think they can be offered. Until proven
> otherwise, I'll assume that the !CONFIG_MMU case is buggy.
> Second of all, removal will make the !CONFIG_MMU systems
> less compatible with the rest of the world. This will
> mean that fewer apps can run on !CONFIG_MMU boxes. It's
> same problem as "All the world's a VAX". It's better that
> the apps work; an author working on a Pentium 4 Xeon is
> likely to write code that relies on the fields and might
> not really understand what "no MMU" is all about.
Would the nommu bits I wrote be satisfactory for you?
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-12 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-08 18:40 [0/1][ANNOUNCE] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information Roger Luethi
2004-09-08 18:41 ` [1/1][PATCH] " Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 0:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 0:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 1:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 1:17 ` [1/2] rediff nproc v2 vs. 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 1:21 ` [2/2] handle CONFIG_MMU=n and use new vm stats for CONFIG_MMU=y William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 1:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 1:26 ` [3/2] round up text memory to the nearest page in fs/proc/task_mmu.c William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 18:43 ` [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 18:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 19:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 19:02 ` [4/2] consolidate __task_mem() and __task_mem_cheap() William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 19:07 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 19:15 ` [5/2] fix nommu VSZ reporting in consolidated task_mem() William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 19:11 ` [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 19:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 21:19 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-10 15:30 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-11 22:25 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-12 4:58 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-09-14 5:59 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 6:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 6:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 7:47 ` Greg Ungerer
2004-09-14 8:27 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 11:53 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-09-09 17:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 17:53 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 20:01 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-09-09 20:48 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-10 12:11 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-09-09 20:55 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 21:05 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-09 21:25 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-11 22:36 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-12 5:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 6:44 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 7:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 7:55 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 8:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 9:27 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 15:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 16:01 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 16:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 17:15 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 17:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 18:45 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 19:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 19:31 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 19:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-14 19:50 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-15 11:44 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-15 20:02 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-15 20:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-15 20:33 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-15 20:44 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 18:37 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-14 18:55 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-14 19:05 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-14 21:12 ` Roger Luethi
2004-09-09 20:44 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-16 21:43 ` nproc: So? Roger Luethi
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