linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] fix up /proc/$pid/smaps to not split huge pages

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Date:	Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:24:04 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Michael J Wolf <mjwolf@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] fix up /proc/$pid/smaps to not split huge pages

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:54:06AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Andrea, after playing with this for a week or two, I'm quite a bit
> more confident that it's not causing much harm.  Seems a fairly
> low-risk feature.  Could we stick these somewhere so they'll at
> least hit linux-next for the 2.6.40 cycle perhaps?

I think they're good to go in mmotm already and to be merged ASAP.

The only minor issue I have is the increment, to become per-cpu. Are
we going to change its location then or it's still read through sysfs?
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