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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>,
	Leonid Moiseichuk <leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: vmevent: question?
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 11:07:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOJsxLHxLbzp+nfc72pzzyAe8W5w-phbHhREdJ7Mg5P9JHeF5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA23A83.4040604@kernel.org>

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> Sorry for my poor explanation.
> My point is when userspace get vmevent_event by reading fd, it could enumerate
> several attribute all at once.
> Then, one of attribute(call A) made by vmevent_match in kernel and other attributes(call B, C, D)
> are just extra for convenience. Because there is time gap when kernel get attribute values, B,C,D could be stale.
> Then, how can user determine which event is really triggered? A or B or C or D?
> Which event really happens?

Right. Mark the matching values with something like
VMEVENT_ATTR_STATE_CAPTURED should be sufficient?

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-30  7:06 Minchan Kim
2012-04-30  7:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-04-30  7:52   ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-30  8:01     ` Pekka Enberg
2012-04-30  8:36       ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-03  7:24         ` Pekka Enberg
2012-05-03  7:57           ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-03  8:07             ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2012-05-03  8:13               ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-30  7:54   ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-04-30  8:03     ` Pekka Enberg

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