On Thu 20-08-15 23:34:51, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: [...] > > Reading a single file is, of course, easier but is it really worth the > > additional code? I haven't really looked at the patch so I might be > > missing something but what would be an advantage over reading > > /proc/<pid>/smaps and extracting the information from there? > > My first idea was just "users should feel it useful", but permission as David > commented sounds a good technical reason to me. 9 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) is quite a lot especially when it touches hot paths like fork so it better should have a good usecase. I have already asked in the other email but is actually anybody requesting this? Nice to have is not a good justification IMO. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>