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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:51:40 -0700
From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, timmurray@...gle.com,
joelaf@...gle.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
On Tue, Aug 08 2017, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 11:22:55AM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> Adding more people.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 08 2017, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> > /proc/pid/smaps_rollup is a new proc file that improves the
>> > performance of user programs that determine aggregate memory
>> > statistics (e.g., total PSS) of a process.
>
> What about linux-mm? Don't they care about this?
Thanks. Added.
>
> Also, do you have a Documentation/ABI update to describe exactly the
> output of this file so we know what it is, and know not to change it in
> the future? Or wherever proc files are documented, I'm not sure if ABI/
> has all that many of them at the moment given the age of most of
> them...
I figured I'd get feedback on the patch itself first. Does that make sense?
>
>> > Anroid regularly "samples" the memory usage of various processes in
>
> Spell checkers are your friend :)
Egg applied to face.
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