linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] vmevent: Implement greater-than attribute and one-shot mode

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Message-ID: <20120418224629.GA22150@lizard>
Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:46:32 -0700
From:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc:	Leonid Moiseichuk <leonid.moiseichuk@...ia.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	patches@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vmevent: Implement greater-than attribute and
 one-shot mode

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:01:02PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > This patch implements a new event type, it will trigger whenever a
> > value becomes greater than user-specified threshold, it complements
> > the 'less-then' trigger type.
> > 
> > Also, let's implement the one-shot mode for the events, when set,
> > userspace will only receive one notification per crossing the
> > boundaries.
> > 
> > Now when both LT and GT are set on the same level, the event type
> > works as a cross event type: it triggers whenever a value crosses
> > the threshold from a lesser values side to a greater values side,
> > and vice versa.
> > 
> > We use the event types in an userspace low-memory killer: we get a
> > notification when memory becomes low, so we start freeing memory by
> > killing unneeded processes, and we get notification when memory hits
> > the threshold from another side, so we know that we freed enough of
> > memory.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
> 
> Did you try vmevent-test with this patch? I'm seeing this:

Yep, with CONFIG_SWAP=n, and I had to a modify the test
since I saw the same thing, I believe. I'll try w/ the swap enabled,
and see how it goes. I think the vmevent-test.c needs some improvemnts
in general, but meanwhile...

> Physical pages: 109858
> read failed: Invalid argument

Can you send me the .config file that you used? Might be that
you have CONFIG_SWAP=n too?

Thanks!

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@...il.com
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