linux-kernel - Re: + per-cpuset-hugetlb-accounting-and-administration.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-Id: <20070503231233.4adf560a.pj@sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 May 2007 23:12:33 -0700
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	kenchen@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mm-commits@...r.kernel.org,
	agl@...ibm.com, hermes@...son.dropbear.id.au, wli@...omorphy.com,
	clameter@....com
Subject: Re: + per-cpuset-hugetlb-accounting-and-administration.patch added
 to -mm tree

David wrote:
> This information is already exported to userspace through sysfs.  Simply 
> grab the N-mems allowed to your task from /proc/pid/status, cat 
> /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/meminfo for each N, and add.

Good point.

I don't see how this present patch, to change /proc/meminfo,
can be justified, given this.

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