From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f47so838319pye.20 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:43:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f11576a0803200043p52d875ealcebe46d47d539628@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:43:22 +0900 From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" Subject: Re: [0/2] vmalloc: Add /proc/vmallocinfo to display mappings In-Reply-To: <20080319150704.d3f090e6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080318222701.788442216@sgi.com> <20080319111943.0E1B.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20080319150704.d3f090e6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > 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. -- 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