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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > Just noticed the ugly SGI /proc/*/numa_maps code got merged. Been in -mm for over two months. > I argued several times against it OK, I either didn't notice or forgot to make a note of that. > and I very deliberately didn't include > a similar facility when I wrote the NUMA policy code because it's a bad > idea. > > > - it's a lot of ugly code. > - it's basically only a debugging hack right now > - it presents lots of kernel internal information and mempolicy > internals (like how many people have a page mapped) etc. > to userland that shouldn't be exposed to this. > - the format is very complicated and the chance of bug free > userland parsers of this is near zero. > - there is no demonstrated application that needs it > (there was a theoretical usecase where it might be needed, > but there were better solutions proposed for this) > > > Can the patch please be removed? OK by me. I queued a revert patch. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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