linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] zram: introduce zram memory tracking

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:32:02 +0900
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] zram: introduce zram memory tracking

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:18:34AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (04/20/18 11:09), Minchan Kim wrote:
> [..]
> > > hm, OK, can we get this info into the changelog?  
> > 
> > No problem. I will add as follows,
> > 
> > "I used the feature a few years ago to find memory hoggers in userspace
> > to notice them what memory they have wasted without touch for a long time.
> > With it, they could reduce unnecessary memory space. However, at that time,
> > I hacked up zram for the feature but now I need the feature again so
> > I decided it would be better to upstream rather than keeping it alone.
> > I hope I submit the userspace tool to use the feature soon"
> 
> Shall we then just wait until you resubmit the "complete" patch set: zram
> tracking + the user space tool which would parse the tracking output?

tl;dr: I think userspace tool is just ancillary, not must.

Although my main purpose is to find idle memory hogger, I don't think
userspace tool to find is must to merge this feature because someone
might want to do other thing regardless of the tool.

Examples from my mind is to see how swap write pattern going on,
how sparse swap write happens and so on. :)