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From: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] fix incorrect mm->hiwater_vm and mm->hiwater_rss
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:43:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4339CB15.9060602@engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509271449280.10674@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Jay Lan wrote:
> 
> 
>>Just looked at the __vm_stat_account() code. It is enclosed inside
>>#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS.
>>
>>If that is necessary, i can not put hiwater_vm update code in there. The
>>system accounting code should not be dependent on a config flag that has
>>nothing to do with system accounting.
> 
> 
> I doubt you can do accounting without having /proc. Dont you need to 
> read/write files in /proc? Can we make accounting dependent on /proc?

Right, system accounting code (BSD_PROCESS_ACCT) does not depend on
/proc.

In my opinion, those "everyone should say Y here" config flags should
not be config flags at all. Since it is a flag, i should not put
sys accounting code in there.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-27 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-21 12:19 [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] fix incorrect mm->hiwater_vm and mm->hiwater_rss Frank van Maarseveen
2005-09-21 14:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-09-21 14:58   ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-09-21 15:35     ` Hugh Dickins
2005-09-21 18:42       ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-09-21 18:57         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-09-21 15:26   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-21 15:50     ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-09-21 16:57   ` Jay Lan
2005-09-21 17:05     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-21 17:39       ` Jay Lan
2005-09-21 18:06         ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-09-21 18:38           ` Jay Lan
2005-09-21 17:12     ` Hugh Dickins
2005-09-21 17:31       ` Jay Lan
2005-09-21 17:45         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-21 17:46         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-09-21 18:05           ` Jay Lan
2005-09-21 18:26             ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-09-21 19:19               ` Hugh Dickins
2005-09-21 19:28                 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-09-21 19:38                   ` Jay Lan
2005-09-21 19:47                     ` Hugh Dickins
2005-09-21 19:48                     ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-09-21 19:52                       ` Hugh Dickins
2005-09-21 19:48                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-21 20:06                   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-09-21 20:13                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-27 20:43                 ` Jay Lan
2005-09-27 21:47                   ` Jay Lan
2005-09-27 21:50                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-27 22:43                       ` Jay Lan [this message]
2005-09-28 13:18                   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-09-28 17:31                     ` Jay Lan
2005-10-03 19:53                       ` Hugh Dickins
2005-10-04  8:59                         ` Frank van Maarseveen
2005-10-04 21:48                         ` Jay Lan
2005-10-07  2:09                           ` Jay Lan
2005-10-07  3:03                             ` Hugh Dickins

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