Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Enhance read_block of page_owner.c

From: Michal Nazarewicz
Date: Mon Jan 14 2013 - 03:27:56 EST


On Mon, Jan 14 2013, Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not familar with Python but I can see the point of the program.
> It's very short and good for maintainace but I have a concern about the size.
> For working it in embedded side, we have to port python in that
> machine. :( [...]
> In case of that, just small C program when we release product would be
> good choice.

But is this program intended to be used as is? Or rather to serve as an
example? If the former, than I think it should be in tools/ rather than
in Documentation/. If the latter, than I think it does not really
matter whether it's C or some scripting language, since the purpose is
to show how /proc/page_owner can be used, and in fact showing the
general idea may be simpler with a shorter program which does not have
to deal with memory management.

And if Python is not your fancy, you can always use some shell: ;)

awk -vRS= '{ gsub("\n", "\\n"); print $0 }' |sort |uniq -c

> But I'm not strong aginst on your simple python program. If it is merged,
> we will just continue to use C program instead of python's one.
> If you have a strong opinion, send it to akpm as separate patch.

Not at all. I'm just throwing ideas.

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