linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some vmevent fixes...

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Message-ID: <CAOJsxLHR4wSgT2hNfOB=X6ud0rXgYg+h7PTHzAZYCUdLs6Ktug@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:47:18 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
Cc:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	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, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some vmevent fixes...

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:05 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@...il.com> wrote:
>> Note that 1) and 2) are not problems per se, it's just implementation
>> details, easy stuff. Vmevent is basically an ABI/API, and I didn't
>> hear anybody who would object to vmevent ABI idea itself. More than
>> this, nobody stop us from implementing in-kernel vmevent API, and
>> make Android Lowmemory killer use it, if we want to.
>
> I never agree "it's mere ABI" discussion. Until the implementation is ugly,
> I never agree the ABI even if syscall interface is very clean.

I don't know what discussion you are talking about.

I also don't agree that something should be merged just because the
ABI is clean. The implementation must also make sense. I don't see how
we disagree here at all.
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