From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755127Ab1LFWIh (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2011 17:08:37 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:42801 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753312Ab1LFWIg (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2011 17:08:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:08:33 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Tejun Heo , Andrew Vagin , Serge Hallyn , Vasiliy Kulikov , Kees Cook , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Alexey Dobriyan , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs, proc: Add start_data, end_data, start_brk members to /proc/$pid/stat v2 Message-Id: <20111206140833.3b43fbeb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20111205182010.GV14515@moon> References: <20111205182010.GV14515@moon> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 22:20:11 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > It helps to dump and restore this mm_struct members. Sorry, I'm not going to apply a patch with a changelog like that. It needs a full description of how this will be used and why it is needed. So that others can understand and evaluate the proposal, and any possible alternatives. Such a description would also let us see whether this is just some "hey, maybe we'll use this sometime" thing, in which case it should not yet be applied. > fs/proc/array.c | 7 +++++-- Also, every change to any procfs interface should have an associated change to procfs documentation. If no relevant document exists then heck, write one. No exceptions.