Re: [1/1][PATCH] nproc v2: netlink access to /proc information

From: Roger Luethi
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 14:22:17 EST


On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 11:49:33 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I'll follow up shortly with a task_mem()/task_mem_cheap() consolidation
> patch atop the others I sent.

I have a few minor changes coming up as well.

One nitpick: As vmexe and vmlib are always 0 for !CONFIG_MMU, we should
ifdef them out of the list of offered fields for that configuration (and
maybe in nproc_ps_field as well).

> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:43:01PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> > There seems to be a discrepancy between current task_mem in
> > fs/proc/task_nommu.c and the __task_mem{,_cheap} routines you wrote
> > for the nproc !CONFIG_MMU case. Can you explain?
>
> I'm not aware of a discrepancy with the fs/proc/task_nommu.c code; I
> did, however, have to mangle the things via guesswork to avoid adding
> the new fields, which I really wanted you to arrange for or comment on
> as they are a matter of interface. Also, could you be more specific
> about these discrepancies?

task_nommu.c offers Mem, Slack, and Shared. __task_mem for !CONFIG_MMU
offers VmData, VmStack, VmRSS, VmSize.

Roger
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