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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:03:39 +1000 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn> Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] maps3: make page monitoring /proc file optional On Tuesday 16 October 2007 08:51:17 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:26 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > >> +config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR > >> + default y > >> + bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED && PROC_FS && > >> MMU + help > >> + Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory > >> utilization: + /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, > >> /proc/pid/pagemap, + /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. > >> Disabling these + interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel > >> by approximately 4kb. > > > > How about pulling the EMBEDDED off there? I certainly want it for > > non-embedded reasons. ;) > > That means it will only bother asking you if you've set EMBEDDED; > otherwise its always on. But it's at the least confusing. Surely this option should depend on MMU and PROC_FS, and the prompt depend on EMBEDDED? That might be implied by the Kconfig layout, but AFAICT this patch removed the explicit MMU dependency. Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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