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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] fix incorrect mm->hiwater_vm and mm->hiwater_rss
Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
>
>>This fixes a post 2.6.11 regression in maintaining the mm->hiwater_* counters.
>
>
> It would be a good idea to CC Christoph Lameter, who I believe was the
> one who very intentionally moved most of these updates out to timer tick.
> Is that significantly missing updates?
>
> If it turns out that your patch is appropriate:
>
> 1. The change from tsk to mm is good (but not urgent 2.6.14 material).
>
> 2. You've missed the instance Dave Miller recently added in fs/compat.c.
>
> 3. If these are to be peppered back all over, then the places where
> total_vm changes and the places where rss changes are almost completely
> disjoint, so it's lazy to be calling one function to do both all over.
>
> 4. If you've noticed a regression, you must be one of the elite that knows
> what these counters are used for: nothing in the kernel.org tree does.
> Please add a comment saying what it is that uses them and how, so
> developers can make better judgements about how best to maintain them.
>
> 5. Please add appropriate CONFIG, dummy macros etc., so that no time
> is wasted on these updates in all the vanilla systems which have no
> interest in them - but maybe Christoph already has that well in hand.

It is used in enhanced system accounting. An obvious CONFIG would be
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT.

However, since the CONFIG flag is almost always Yes, people would need
to turn it off if they do not want system accounting. Would that be
OK?

Thanks,
- jay


>
> Sorry for the rifle fire, you did put your head above the parapet!
>
> Hugh
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