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Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory
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On 09/09/2011 03:52 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:04:05 +0400
> Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory v11
> 
> Ho hum, I've pretty much run out of excuses to avoid merging this.
> 
> except...
> 
> We don't really want to bloat fs/proc/base.o by 4k until all the other
> things which support c/r are mergeable and we know that the whole
> project is actually useful.  When will we be at this stage?

Well, I see no other stuff that will be required for us in the nearest
future (well, and in the not-so-near future as well) in the fs/proc/base.o
to checkpoint or restore a task.

Thanks,
Pavel