On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:30:29PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > 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.
In that case, is there much point to show_mem()? Is it something which should be considered for removal? If code serves no useful purpose anymore, we really ought to have a way to remove it. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 10.5Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- 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/
