On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 01:28 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Christoph, /proc/slabinfo is an _ABI_. You HAVE to provide it. slabtop > > relies on it, people use it every day to monitor memory consumption. > > It's definitely not a stable ABI. slabtop tends to exit without any > error message on any slabinfo version number increase and I've seen > that happen several times in not so old kernels. > > Requiring just another slabtop update isn't really a big deal.
Might as well mention that SLOB also doesn't provide this functionality, nor would it make any sense for it to try (because there are no slab-like objects to report about). -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
