From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] large /proc/mounts and friends
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:05:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011016140539.A2426@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110152050010.11608-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110152050010.11608-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
Hi,
> Folks, patch below adds a new way to handle large files on procfs.
> I've done that for /proc/mounts and /proc/ksyms, but the same trick can
> be pulled for anything else. The basic idea: if file consists of records
> generated by some sequence of objects, we can just describe an iterator and
> use precanned functions to turn it into a file. That (and helpers for
> formatting) is done in fs/seq_file.c and include/linux/seq_file.h.
Ahh good I was just going to fix /proc/stat and /proc/interrupts; given
enough interrupts and cpus they both overflow 1 page and cause random
memory corruption.
Anton
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-16 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-16 1:10 Alexander Viro
2001-10-16 3:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-16 3:45 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-16 4:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-16 4:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-16 9:58 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-10-16 3:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-16 4:03 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-16 4:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-16 4:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-16 5:16 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-17 2:09 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-16 4:43 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-16 4:05 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
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