linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] fix up /proc/$pid/smaps to not split huge pages

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Date:	Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:54:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Michael J Wolf <mjwolf@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] fix up /proc/$pid/smaps to not split huge pages

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:54:06AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > Andrea, after playing with this for a week or two, I'm quite a bit
> > more confident that it's not causing much harm.  Seems a fairly
> > low-risk feature.  Could we stick these somewhere so they'll at
> > least hit linux-next for the 2.6.40 cycle perhaps?
> 
> I think they're good to go in mmotm already and to be merged ASAP.
> 
> The only minor issue I have is the increment, to become per-cpu. Are
> we going to change its location then or it's still read through sysfs?
> 

Dave, I notice these patches haven't been merged into -mm yet.  Are we 
waiting on another iteration or is this set ready to go?
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