Re: [RFC 01/22] Generic show_mem() implementation

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Apr 03 2008 - 10:50:01 EST


Hi,

Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> e.g. we currently have this in arch/s390/Kconfig:
>>
>> config S390
>> def_bool y
>> select HAVE_OPROFILE
>> select HAVE_KPROBES
>> select HAVE_KRETPROBES
>>
>> just add a select HAVE_GENERIC_SHOWMEM or something like that in the arch
>> specific patches.
> Seconded.
> See Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt for a few more hints
> how to do it.

After more thinking about it, wouldn't it be better to have
HAVE_ARCH_SHOW_MEM in mm/Kconfig and let archs with their own show_mem()
select it? Because there are far more archs that use the generic
version than those having their own.

Hannes
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