On Thu 20-08-15 23:34:51, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: [...] > > Reading a single file is, of course, easier but is it really worth the > > additional code? I haven't really looked at the patch so I might be > > missing something but what would be an advantage over reading > > /proc/<pid>/smaps and extracting the information from there? > > My first idea was just "users should feel it useful", but permission as David > commented sounds a good technical reason to me.
9 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) is quite a lot especially when it touches hot paths like fork so it better should have a good usecase. I have already asked in the other email but is actually anybody requesting this? Nice to have is not a good justification IMO. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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/
