On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 06:25:46PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > But at least make it into its own module with a debugfs interface or > something. I mean, exposing a PG_name-to-nr and page count pfn and flags > as a supposedly formal proc interface doesn't sound nice to me. Page > flags does not tell you what is going on in the VM, it gives you a tiny > window into "something". Between reading a /proc/pid/ pfn and finding > the pfn's page flags, it could be used for something completely different > anyway.
I agree that exposing numerical values of page flags is not a very good idea at all. If we really want to expose this information it should at least be in string form, although that is quite a bit of a maintaince horror aswell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
