From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [rfc 0/2] Introducing VmFlags field into smaps output
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:39:14 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121022193914.GK2303@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121022122934.d2e2fa57.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:29:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:14:52 +0400
> Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys, during c/r sessions we've found that there is no way at
> > the moment to fetch some VMA associated flags, such as mlock()
> > and madvise(), thus the patches in this series intorduce new field
> > into "smaps" output called VmFlags where all flags associated with
> > the particular VMA is shown in two letter mnemonic.
> >
> > Strictly speaking for c/r we only need mlock/madvise bits but it
> > has been said that providing just a few flags looks somehow inconsistent.
> > So all flags are here now.
> >
> > Please review. Comments and complains are quite welcome!
>
> Sigh, it's still a pretty nasty-looking interface. Better ideas are
> welcomed.
Well, one usable thing could be (I guess) to print only flags set. Since
usually not that many flags are set on vma. This would shrink output at
least.
> I joined the patches into one, massaged the changelog a bit and added a
> couple more paragraphs explaining why we're doing this to ourselves.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-22 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-22 19:14 [rfc 0/2] Introducing VmFlags field into smaps output Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-10-22 19:14 ` [rfc 1/2] [RFC] procfs: Add VmFlags field in " Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-10-22 19:14 ` [rfc 2/2] [RFC] procfs: Documantation -- Add VmFlags field description Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-10-22 19:29 ` [rfc 0/2] Introducing VmFlags field into smaps output Andrew Morton
2012-10-22 19:39 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2012-10-22 20:50 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-10-22 20:56 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-10-22 21:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-10-22 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-23 6:13 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-10-23 6:30 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-23 6:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-10-23 7:15 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-10-23 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-23 21:46 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-10-23 21:59 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-10-23 22:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-10-23 23:56 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-10-24 6:30 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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