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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] maps3: make page monitoring /proc file optional
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:03:39 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710161003.39992.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4713EEE5.8060706@goop.org>

On Tuesday 16 October 2007 08:51:17 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:26 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >> +config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
> >> +       default y
> >> +       bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED && PROC_FS &&
> >> MMU +       help
> >> +         Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory
> >> utilization: +         /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs,
> >> /proc/pid/pagemap, +         /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags.
> >> Disabling these +          interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel
> >> by approximately 4kb.
> >
> > How about pulling the EMBEDDED off there?  I certainly want it for
> > non-embedded reasons. ;)
>
> That means it will only bother asking you if you've set EMBEDDED;
> otherwise its always on.

But it's at the least confusing.  Surely this option should depend on MMU and 
PROC_FS, and the prompt depend on EMBEDDED?

That might be implied by the Kconfig layout, but AFAICT this patch removed the 
explicit MMU dependency.

Rusty.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-16  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-15 22:25 [PATCH 0/11] maps3: pagemap monitoring v3 Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 22:25 ` [PATCH 1/11] maps3: add proportional set size accounting in smaps Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 23:36   ` David Rientjes
2007-10-16  0:18     ` Matt Mackall
2007-10-16  2:24       ` David Rientjes
2007-10-15 22:25 ` [PATCH 2/11] maps3: introduce task_size_of for all arches Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 23:45   ` David Rientjes
2007-10-16  0:36     ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-16  2:26       ` David Rientjes
2007-10-16 17:18         ` maps3: introduce task_size_of for all arches (updated v4) Dave Hansen
2007-10-16 17:25           ` David Rientjes
2007-10-15 22:26 ` [PATCH 3/11] maps3: move is_swap_pte Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 22:26 ` [PATCH 4/11] maps3: introduce a generic page walker Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 22:40   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 23:05     ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-15 23:20       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 23:30     ` Matt Mackall
2007-10-16  4:58   ` David Rientjes
2007-10-15 22:26 ` [PATCH 5/11] maps3: use pagewalker in clear_refs and smaps Matt Mackall
2007-10-16  5:03   ` David Rientjes
2007-10-15 22:26 ` [PATCH 6/11] maps3: simplify interdependence of maps " Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 22:26 ` [PATCH 7/11] maps3: move clear_refs code to task_mmu.c Matt Mackall
2007-10-16  5:11   ` David Rientjes
2007-10-15 22:26 ` [PATCH 8/11] maps3: regroup task_mmu by interface Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 22:26 ` [PATCH 9/11] maps3: add /proc/pid/pagemap interface Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 22:26 ` [PATCH 10/11] maps3: add /proc/kpagecount and /proc/kpageflags interfaces Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 22:48   ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-15 23:11     ` Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 23:34       ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-16  0:35         ` Matt Mackall
2007-10-16  0:49           ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-16  0:58             ` Matt Mackall
2007-10-16  1:07               ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-15 22:26 ` [PATCH 11/11] maps3: make page monitoring /proc file optional Matt Mackall
2007-10-15 22:49   ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-15 22:51     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-16  0:03       ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-10-16  0:20         ` Matt Mackall
2007-10-16  5:25   ` David Rientjes

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