Re: [stable] [PATCH] slub: provide /proc/slabinfo

2008-01-07 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi Greg, On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Greg KH wrote: > This feels to me like a "feature addition", and as such, I don't think > it is aplicable for the .23-stable tree. It's an ABI regression (slabtop, for example, doesn't work) when CONFIG_SLUB is enabled. Pekka -- To unsubscrib

Re: [stable] [PATCH] slub: provide /proc/slabinfo

2008-01-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:28:10PM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [ Upstream commits: 57ed3eda977a215f054102b460ab0eb5d8d112e6, > 6b6adc22a01941165d5af9a3e69e28e948b28f47, and > 158a962422e4a54dc256b6a9b9562f3d30d34d9c ] > > This adds a read-only /pr

[PATCH] slub: provide /proc/slabinfo

2008-01-07 Thread Pekka J Enberg
From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Upstream commits: 57ed3eda977a215f054102b460ab0eb5d8d112e6, 6b6adc22a01941165d5af9a3e69e28e948b28f47, and 158a962422e4a54dc256b6a9b9562f3d30d34d9c ] This adds a read-only /proc/slabinfo file on SLUB, that makes slabtop work. [ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: build

Re: [patch] slub: provide /proc/slabinfo

2008-01-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > this is the part I'm not very thrilled about... at least on first sight > it looks like a user can now hold the read sem over system calls, and > for as long as it wants. No, you misunderstand how seq-files work. The start/stop sequence is done

Re: [patch] slub: provide /proc/slabinfo

2008-01-04 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:23:28 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] doesn't a patch to provide /proc/slabinfo for SLUB already > > exist? > > yes, the complete (and tested) patch is below. It has been through a > few thousand rando

[patch] slub: provide /proc/slabinfo

2008-01-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] doesn't a patch to provide /proc/slabinfo for SLUB already > exist? yes, the complete (and tested) patch is below. It has been through a few thousand random-bootup tests on x86 32-bit and 64-bit so it's v2.6.24 material i think. Ingo