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From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [0/2] vmalloc: Add /proc/vmallocinfo to display mappings
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:43:22 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f11576a0803200043p52d875ealcebe46d47d539628@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080319150704.d3f090e6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Hi Andrew,

>  > > Example:
>  > >
>  > > cat /proc/vmallocinfo
>
>  argh, please don't top-post.
>
>  (undoes it)

sorry, I don't do that at next.

>  > Great.
>  > it seems very useful.
>  > and, I found no bug.
>  >
>  > Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
>  I was just about to ask whether we actually need the feature - I don't
>  recall ever having needed it, nor do I recall seeing anyone else need it.
>
>  Why is it useful?

to be honest, I tought this is merely good debug feature.
but crishtoph-san already explained it is more useful things.

Thanks.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-20  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-18 22:27 [0/2] vmalloc: Add /proc/vmallocinfo to display mappings Christoph Lameter
2008-03-18 22:27 ` [1/2] vmalloc: Show vmalloced areas via /proc/vmallocinfo Christoph Lameter
2008-03-20  4:04   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-03-20 19:22     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 22:19       ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-21 22:09         ` Alan Cox
2008-03-18 22:27 ` [2/2] vmallocinfo: Add caller information Christoph Lameter
2008-03-19 21:42   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-20  0:03     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 11:00       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 17:35         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 18:45           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 19:16             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-21 20:55               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-22  2:40                 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-29  8:48   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 17:08     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-28 19:48       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-29 18:49         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-28 21:00           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-29 19:09             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-29 19:23               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-29 19:29                 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-29 19:29               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-19  2:23 ` [0/2] vmalloc: Add /proc/vmallocinfo to display mappings KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-19 22:07   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-19 23:33     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-20  7:43     ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]

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