From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [RFC 01/22] Generic show_mem() implementation Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:49:42 +0200 Message-ID: <871w5nouwp.fsf@saeurebad.de> References: <12071688283927-git-send-email-hannes@saeurebad.de> <1207168839586-git-send-email-hannes@saeurebad.de> <20080403075545.GC4125@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20080403124820.GA30356@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080403124820.GA30356@uranus.ravnborg.org> (Sam Ravnborg's message of "Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:48:20 +0200") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Heiko Carstens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mingo@elte.hu, davem@davemloft.net, hskinnemoen@atmel.com, cooloney@kernel.org, starvik@axis.com, dhowells@redhat.com, ysato@users.sf.net, takata@linux-m32r.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, kyle@parisc-linux.org, paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, jdike@addtoit.com, miles@gnu.org, chris@zankel.net, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, tony.luck@intel.com List-Id: linux-mm.kvack.org Hi, Sam Ravnborg writes: >> e.g. we currently have this in arch/s390/Kconfig: >> >> config S390 >> def_bool y >> select HAVE_OPROFILE >> select HAVE_KPROBES >> select HAVE_KRETPROBES >> >> just add a select HAVE_GENERIC_SHOWMEM or something like that in the arch >> specific patches. > Seconded. > See Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt for a few more hints > how to do it. After more thinking about it, wouldn't it be better to have HAVE_ARCH_SHOW_MEM in mm/Kconfig and let archs with their own show_mem() select it? Because there are far more archs that use the generic version than those having their own. Hannes