linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm v9 0/8] idle memory tracking

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:30:15 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
Cc:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@...gle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm v9 0/8] idle memory tracking

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:29:08 +0300 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com> wrote:

> /proc/kpageidle should probably live somewhere in /sys/kernel/mm, but I
> added it where similar files are located (kpagecount, kpageflags) to
> keep things consistent.

I think these files should be moved elsewhere.  Consistency is good,
but not when we're being consistent with a bad thing.

So let's place these in /sys/kernel/mm and then start being consistent
with that?

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