From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932149AbWFMRTS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:19:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932205AbWFMRTS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:19:18 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:44008 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932149AbWFMRTR (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:19:17 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: rohitseth@google.com 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, Linux-mm@kvack.org, arjan@infradead.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de 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: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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