From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753164AbXDMDKm (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:10:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753199AbXDMDKm (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:10:42 -0400 Received: from smtp109.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.219]:23732 "HELO smtp109.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753164AbXDMDKl (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:10:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=1IlBwaM7/vPNSLN8VQ12R4zA13KJJrLYW26RNIzdqi7Tvjdb2YnFOlmVzpC49fL3sM8kUBzalW4nNPUPWZPi7UUSdvhW9sDjvNkt50NgSq8LJ32bilKgeMSFClBYHeRwqf546rPNkn6slKxwIwPn6TNfkb/7MXQ0Fvk6GV/5mDM= ; X-YMail-OSG: KbE2R4UVM1kC2cMPT2BBXFDW9K8k5NJNSrQJCHh1ynuJVZgHGDQ0Aeg3w2FAPxVtmzh_MIUD4Q-- Message-ID: <461EF4A5.4090604@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:10:29 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] maps: pagemap, kpagemap, and related cleanups References: <1.486631555@selenic.com> <20070412231050.GN2986@holomorphy.com> <20070412163235.dd030637.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <461ECB9C.8060000@yahoo.com.au> <20070412174201.065068b2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <461ED96C.5030606@yahoo.com.au> <20070412182213.a18cc4a7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <461EE005.6070605@yahoo.com.au> <20070412185723.5a5f0443.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <461EE890.2040601@yahoo.com.au> <20070412193255.62a0b8ed.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <461EEFEC.2010205@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <461EEFEC.2010205@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Piggin wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> Then you just end up with the same thing, don't you? > > > Well _you_ do, because that happens to be exactly what you want. Bill > ends up with something that displays page_mapcount instead. And I > end up with something that traverses LRU lists rather than pfns. And > none of it goes in /proc/ or linux-2.6/. Oh, and you get to change it without recompiling and rebooting your kernel. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.