Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:50:48 +0400 | From | Pavel Emelyanov <> | Subject | Re: [rfc 0/2] Introducing VmFlags field into smaps output |
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On 10/22/2012 11:29 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:14:52 +0400 > Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> wrote: > >> Hi guys, during c/r sessions we've found that there is no way at >> the moment to fetch some VMA associated flags, such as mlock() >> and madvise(), thus the patches in this series intorduce new field >> into "smaps" output called VmFlags where all flags associated with >> the particular VMA is shown in two letter mnemonic. >> >> Strictly speaking for c/r we only need mlock/madvise bits but it >> has been said that providing just a few flags looks somehow inconsistent. >> So all flags are here now. >> >> Please review. Comments and complains are quite welcome! > > Sigh, it's still a pretty nasty-looking interface. Better ideas are > welcomed.
Maybe just a string of two-letter short names like
VmFlags: rd wr sh sr
?
I.e. in a way flags line looks in cpuinfo file.
> I joined the patches into one, massaged the changelog a bit and added a > couple more paragraphs explaining why we're doing this to ourselves.
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