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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, timmurray@google.com,
	joelaf@google.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:51:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <r025zib9zydf.fsf@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170808184246.GA29058@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Tue, 8 Aug 2017 11:42:46 -0700")

On Tue, Aug 08 2017, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 11:22:55AM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> Adding more people.
>> 
>> On Tue, Aug 08 2017, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> > /proc/pid/smaps_rollup is a new proc file that improves the
>> > performance of user programs that determine aggregate memory
>> > statistics (e.g., total PSS) of a process.
>
> What about linux-mm?  Don't they care about this?

Thanks. Added.

>
> Also, do you have a Documentation/ABI update to describe exactly the
> output of this file so we know what it is, and know not to change it in
> the future?  Or wherever proc files are documented, I'm not sure if ABI/
> has all that many of them at the moment given the age of most of
> them...

I figured I'd get feedback on the patch itself first. Does that make sense?

>
>> > Anroid regularly "samples" the memory usage of various processes in
>
> Spell checkers are your friend :)

Egg applied to face.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-08 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-08 13:25 Daniel Colascione
2017-08-08 18:22 ` Daniel Colascione
2017-08-08 18:42   ` Greg KH
2017-08-08 18:51     ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2017-08-08 18:56       ` Greg KH
2017-08-10  0:15 ` [PATCH RFC v2] " Daniel Colascione
2017-08-10  1:24   ` Randy Dunlap
2017-08-10  4:38   ` Minchan Kim
2017-08-10  8:46     ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-10 10:23       ` Daniel Colascione
2017-08-10 10:58         ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-10 18:56           ` Sonny Rao
2017-08-10 19:17             ` Tim Murray
2017-08-24  8:55               ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-25 21:16                 ` Andrew Morton
2017-08-28 11:30                   ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-12  2:21   ` [PATCH v3] " Daniel Colascione

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