From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen 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 References: <787b0d920606122253o4f1a9e18x1ca49c3ce005696f@mail.gmail.com> <200606130756.52669.ak@suse.de> <1150218637.9576.73.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> In-Reply-To: <1150218637.9576.73.camel@galaxy.corp.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606131918.56772.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: rohitseth@google.com Cc: Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, Linux-mm@kvack.org, arjan@infradead.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de List-ID: > 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org