From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757823AbZEGAVh (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 20:21:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753134AbZEGAV1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 20:21:27 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:45755 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751098AbZEGAV1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 20:21:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 17:19:07 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Minchan Kim Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Hugh Dickins , Alan Cox , Rik van Riel , Izik Eidus , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@redhat.com, device@lanana.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] ksm: dont allow overlap memory addresses registrations. Message-ID: <20090507001907.GD16870@x200.localdomain> References: <4A00DD4F.8010101@redhat.com> <4A015C69.7010600@redhat.com> <4A0181EA.3070600@redhat.com> <20090506131735.GW16078@random.random> <20090506140904.GY16078@random.random> <20090506152100.41266e4c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090506145641.GA16078@random.random> <20090507085547.24efb60f.minchan.kim@barrios-desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090507085547.24efb60f.minchan.kim@barrios-desktop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Minchan Kim (minchan.kim@gmail.com) wrote: > I want to use this feature without appliation internal knowledge easily. > Maybe it can be useless without appliation behavior knowledge. > But it will help various application experiments without much knowledge of application and recompile. > > ex) echo 'pid 0x8050000 0x100000' > sysfs or procfs or cgroup. Yes, this is common request. Izik made some changes to enable a pid based registration, just not been cleaned up and made available yet. thanks, -chris