From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, emunson@mgebm.net,
anton@redhat.com, Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: /proc/meminfo shows data for all sizes of hugepages
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:26:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110308012613.GA2391@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299503155-6210-1-git-send-email-pholasek@redhat.com>
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 02:05:55PM +0100, Petr Holasek wrote:
> /proc/meminfo file shows data for all used sizes of hugepages
> on system, not only for default hugepage size.
When I wrote that It was intentional to only report the
default page size here. The other page sizes are reported
in sysfs instead.
The reason was to avoid breaking any applications that
read /proc/meminfo today.
I suspect your patch will break them.
-Andi
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-07 13:05 Petr Holasek
2011-03-07 19:46 ` Dave Hansen
2011-03-07 20:13 ` Eric B Munson
2011-03-07 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-07 23:14 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2011-03-07 23:24 ` Eric B Munson
2011-03-07 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-07 23:47 ` David Rientjes
2011-03-08 0:57 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2011-03-08 9:37 ` Mel Gorman
2011-03-08 11:21 ` Petr Holasek
2011-03-08 13:51 ` Eric B Munson
2011-03-08 1:26 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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