From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753905AbYK2Xwx (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:52:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754856AbYK2Xwg (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:52:36 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:49187 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754554AbYK2Xwe (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:52:34 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:49:07 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Remi Colinet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] Add /proc/mempool to display mempool usage Message-ID: <20081129234907.GA2340@kroah.com> References: <1227980689.6354.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20081129214207.GA6747@x200.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081129214207.GA6747@x200.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:42:07AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 06:44:49PM +0100, Remi Colinet wrote: > > This patch add a new /proc/mempool file in order to display mempool usage. > > > > The feature can be disabled with CONFIG_PROC_MEMPOOL=N during kernel > > configuration. > > We're NOT adding config option per proc file. > > And can we, please, freeze /proc for not per-process stuff and open debugfs > for random stuff, please? debugfs has been open for random stuff since the day it was added to the tree :) Feel free to put this kind of thing there instead of proc. thanks, greg k-h