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Message-ID: <c72fea44-59f3-b106-8311-b5eae2d254e7@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 17:05:44 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: prakash.sangappa@...cle.com,
Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-api@...r.kernel.org, mhocko@...e.com,
kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com,
drepper@...il.com, rientjes@...gle.com,
Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add /proc/<pid>/numa_vamaps for numa node information
On 05/07/2018 04:22 PM, prakash.sangappa wrote:
> However, with the proposed new file, we could allow seeking to
> specified virtual address. The lseek offset in this case would
> represent the virtual address of the process. Subsequent read from
> the file would provide VA range to numa node information starting
> from that VA. In case the VA seek'ed to is invalid, it will start
> from the next valid mapped VA of the process. The implementation
> would not be based on seq_file.
So you're proposing a new /proc/<pid> file that appears next to and is
named very similarly to the exiting /proc/<pid>, but which has entirely
different behavior?
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