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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 2/2] mm: hugetlb: proc: add HugetlbPages field to /proc/PID/status
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 01:00:05PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 20-08-15 08:26:27, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > Currently there's no easy way to get per-process usage of hugetlb pages,
>
> Is this really the case after your previous patch? You have both
> HugetlbPages and KernelPageSize which should be sufficient no?

We can calcurate it from these info, so saying "no easy way" was incorrect :(

> Reading a single file is, of course, easier but is it really worth the
> additional code? I haven't really looked at the patch so I might be
> missing something but what would be an advantage over reading
> /proc/<pid>/smaps and extracting the information from there?

My first idea was just "users should feel it useful", but permission as David
commented sounds a good technical reason to me.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi
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