Re: [PATCH 5/5] proc: export more page flags in /proc/kpageflags

[Andi Kleen]

> Yes, zero overhead is important for certain things (like
> CONFIG_SLUB_STATS, for example). However, putting slab allocator
> specific checks in fs/proc looks pretty fragile to me. It would be nice

Ok, perhaps that could be put into a inline into slab.h. Would
that address your concerns?

> Also, while you probably don't want to use tracepoints for this kind of
> instrumentation, you might want to look into reusing the ftrace
> reporting bits.

There's already perfectly fine code in tree for this, I don't see why it would
need another infrastructure that doesn't really fit anyways.

-Andi

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