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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Install kernel-page-flags.h
On 03/14/2012 03:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I don't think this is a good idea at all. Let's shoot the person who
> added that braindead interface ASAP, and replace it with one printing
> the flags in ASCII format.

This isn't really realistic. The information is retrieved based on the
PFN using lseek+read from a file descriptor. How is the read supposed
to work in case the record returned is not of a fixed size? Aside,
potentially a lot of these records are to be read and using ASCII
strings will significantly slow things down.

If you have a concrete proposal please go ahead and propose it.


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