linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix protection column misplacing in /proc/zoneinfo

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:19:40 -0400
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
CC:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	kosaki.motohiro@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix protection column misplacing in /proc/zoneinfo

(6/11/12 5:04 PM), Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
>> Several years, some one added ZVC stat. therefore, hardcoded line
>
> You are talking to the "some one".... The aim at that point was not the
> beauty of the output but the scaling of the counter operations. There was
> no intention in placing things a certain way. I'd be fine with changes as
> long as we are sure that they do not break anything.

Maybe my english was poor. I didn't talk about your change at last mail. I
talked about some new counters like nr_anon_transparent_hugepages. Hardcoded
linenuber assumption was break multiple times already. therefore, I don't
think line number change causes application breakage.

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