Re: [PATCH] Add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup
From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 08 2017 - 14:43:09 EST
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 11:22:55AM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Adding more people.
>
> On Tue, Aug 08 2017, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> > /proc/pid/smaps_rollup is a new proc file that improves the
> > performance of user programs that determine aggregate memory
> > statistics (e.g., total PSS) of a process.
What about linux-mm? Don't they care about this?
Also, do you have a Documentation/ABI update to describe exactly the
output of this file so we know what it is, and know not to change it in
the future? Or wherever proc files are documented, I'm not sure if ABI/
has all that many of them at the moment given the age of most of them...
> > Anroid regularly "samples" the memory usage of various processes in
Spell checkers are your friend :)
thanks,
greg k-h