linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/12] ksm: pages_unshared and pages

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Message-ID: <20090805151139.GY23385@random.random>
Date:	Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:11:39 +0200
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, ieidus@...hat.com,
	riel@...hat.com, chrisw@...hat.com, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/12] ksm: pages_unshared and pages_volatile

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:39:06PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> procfs is not a nice interface for sysfs to be reading
> when it's asked to show pages_volatile!

Agreed, that is the real reason, grabbing that info from
slub/slab/slob (not so much from procfs) would be tricky.

Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
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