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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:11:39 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/12] ksm: pages_unshared and pages_volatile
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On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:39:06PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> procfs is not a nice interface for sysfs to be reading
> when it's asked to show pages_volatile!

Agreed, that is the real reason, grabbing that info from
slub/slab/slob (not so much from procfs) would be tricky.

Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>