Re: [PATCH] [7/7] CPA: Add statistics about state of direct mapping v2

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 06:41:59PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Add information about the mapping state of the direct mapping to 
> > /proc/meminfo.
> 
> Please use debugfs for this.

But it's not debugging. Or are you saying all memory state information
in /proc/meminfo is debugging information?  I would say it is generic
memory state tracking, similar to VmallocUsed or Slab: or NFS_Unstable:
e.g. I would expect a machine to go slower if all direct mapping pages
are split due to increase TLB misses and that information is generally
useful and should not be forced into some debugging ghetto.

-Andi

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