From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number of physical_pages_backing it Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:56:52 +0200 References: <787b0d920606122253o4f1a9e18x1ca49c3ce005696f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <787b0d920606122253o4f1a9e18x1ca49c3ce005696f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606130756.52669.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rohitseth@google.com, akpm@osdl.org, Linux-mm@kvack.org, arjan@infradead.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de List-ID: On Tuesday 13 June 2006 07:53, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Quoting two different people: > > > BTW, what is smaps used for (who uses it), anyway? > ... > > smaps is only a debugging kludge anyways and it's > > not a good idea to we bloat core data structures for it. > > I'd be using it in procps for the pmap command if it > were not so horribly nasty. I may eventually get around > to using it, but maybe it's just too gross to tolerate. I agree it's pretty ugly. But pmap I would consider a debugging kludge too - it should work when someone needs it, but it doesn't need to be particularly fast. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org