linux-kernel - Re: Sysfs one-value-per-file (was Re: [PATCH] vmstat: don't auto expand the sysfs files)

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 09:48:08 -0500
From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, rafael@...nel.org, surenb@...gle.com, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, souravpanda@...gle.com
Subject: Re: Sysfs one-value-per-file (was Re: [PATCH] vmstat: don't auto
 expand the sysfs files)

On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 1:42 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:53:31 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> > But for existing files and conventions, I think we should settle it as
> > "keep doing what you've been doing for 13+ years" and don't force this
> > argument every time a kernel developer wants to just add one more stat.
>
> Absolutely.  Let's do what makes most sense.  For new things, one value
> per file.  For stats which logically group with other existing stats,
> do whatever the existing other stats are currently doing.

The intent of "[PATCH] vmstat: don't auto expand the sysfs files" is
to do exactly this: keep the current fields in
/sys/devices/system/node/node*/vmstat as-is, but prevent future fields
added to node_stat, numa_stat, zone_stat from showing in vmstat.

Potentially, we could also extend checkpatch.pl to warn when
VMSTAT_SHOW_SYSFS is used in the future patches.

Pasha