Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:46:11 +0300
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Iago =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?= Galeiras <iago@endocode.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Djalal Harouni <djalal@endocode.com>,
        Alban Crequy <alban@endocode.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: config PROC_CHILDREN
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On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Iago L?pez Galeiras wrote:
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> 
> > That being said, I am curious... Is this interface so expensive that it
> > really deserves a separate option, instead of always enabling it? This
> > seems to be a fairly generic feature that a lot of scripts and tools
> > could benefit from (starting with pstree I suppose.)
> 
> I don't think I have enough information to answer that question. I'll CC Cyrill
> Gorcunov and Andrew Morton.

The interface is not expensive per-se but it was developed for
checkpoint/restore in first place so we've been wrapping any
new code created for this sake with CONFIG_. And we (criu
team) were the only users of this interface at those days
so it had lot of sence to keep it conditionally enabled.
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