From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: rohitseth@google.com
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, Linux-mm@kvack.org,
arjan@infradead.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number of physical_pages_backing it
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:18:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606131918.56772.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150218637.9576.73.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com>
> Providing useful information about memory consumption is hardly
> debugging kludge.
I strongly believe anything that shows virtual addresses is for debugging
only. If your monitoring systems needs to look at VMAs it is doing
something very wrong or trying to do something that shouldn't be
in user space.
-Andi
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: rohitseth@google.com
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, Linux-mm@kvack.org,
arjan@infradead.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number of physical_pages_backing it
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:18:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606131918.56772.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150218637.9576.73.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com>
> Providing useful information about memory consumption is hardly
> debugging kludge.
I strongly believe anything that shows virtual addresses is for debugging
only. If your monitoring systems needs to look at VMAs it is doing
something very wrong or trying to do something that shouldn't be
in user space.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-13 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-13 5:53 [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number of physical_pages_backing it Albert Cahalan
2006-06-13 5:53 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-06-13 5:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-13 5:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-13 17:10 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13 17:10 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13 17:18 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-06-13 17:18 ` Andi Kleen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-10 1:33 [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number of physical pages backing it Rohit Seth
2006-06-10 1:33 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-10 2:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-10 2:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-12 17:49 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-12 17:49 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-10 7:35 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-10 7:35 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-11 10:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-11 10:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-12 17:36 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-12 17:36 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-12 17:58 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 17:58 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 19:42 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-12 19:42 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13 3:51 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-13 3:51 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-13 4:27 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-13 4:27 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-13 16:59 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13 16:59 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13 17:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-06-13 17:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-06-13 18:09 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13 18:09 ` Rohit Seth
2006-06-13 17:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-13 17:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-11 16:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-11 16:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-12 11:17 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 11:17 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 12:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-12 12:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-12 12:54 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 12:54 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-12 16:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-12 16:43 ` Christoph Lameter
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