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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:43:22 +0900
From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [0/2] vmalloc: Add /proc/vmallocinfo to display mappings
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Hi Andrew,

>  > > Example:
>  > >
>  > > cat /proc/vmallocinfo
>
>  argh, please don't top-post.
>
>  (undoes it)

sorry, I don't do that at next.

>  > Great.
>  > it seems very useful.
>  > and, I found no bug.
>  >
>  > Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
>  I was just about to ask whether we actually need the feature - I don't
>  recall ever having needed it, nor do I recall seeing anyone else need it.
>
>  Why is it useful?

to be honest, I tought this is merely good debug feature.
but crishtoph-san already explained it is more useful things.

Thanks.