On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:46:12AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > <SNIP> > > Looking at Mel's commit, I don't see a reason why we couldn't use that > solution - it gets rid of walking the page array, which has been fraught > in the past due to ARM having platforms which have holes in their > physical memory. > > We could try that solution - I don't see much downside to it. Most of > that information is as debug information for MM stuff anyway, and IMHO
>From an MM perspective, I can tell you that the information is close to useless for debugging anything. It's why I ditched it in that commit and AFAIK, no one has ever cared. > 8<=== > From: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk> > Subject: [PATCH] ARM: switch to use the generic show_mem() implementation > > Switch ARM to use the generic show_mem() implementation, which displays > the statistics from the mm zone rather than walking the page arrays. > > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk> If this builds, boots and sysrq-m works as expected then for what it's worth Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgor...@suse.de> -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
