linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND][PATCH] Add /proc/mempool to display mempool usage

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Message-Id: <1228078811.2658.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:00:11 +0100
From:	Remi Colinet <remi.colinet@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] Add /proc/mempool to display mempool usage

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 15:49 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:42:07AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 06:44:49PM +0100, Remi Colinet wrote:
> > > This patch add a new /proc/mempool file in order to display mempool usage.
> > > 
> > > The feature can be disabled with CONFIG_PROC_MEMPOOL=N during kernel
> > > configuration.
> > 
> > We're NOT adding config option per proc file.
> > 
> > And can we, please, freeze /proc for not per-process stuff and open debugfs
> > for random stuff, please?
> 
> debugfs has been open for random stuff since the day it was added to the
> tree :)
> 
> Feel free to put this kind of thing there instead of proc.
> 

Acknowledged,

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thanks,
Remi

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