Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751248AbVIURFQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:05:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751252AbVIURFQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:05:16 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:41448 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751248AbVIURFO (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:05:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:05:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Jay Lan cc: Hugh Dickins , Frank van Maarseveen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] fix incorrect mm->hiwater_vm and mm->hiwater_rss In-Reply-To: <43319111.1050803@engr.sgi.com> Message-ID: References: <20050921121915.GA14645@janus> <43319111.1050803@engr.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 953 Lines: 20 On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Jay Lan wrote: > > 5. Please add appropriate CONFIG, dummy macros etc., so that no time > > is wasted on these updates in all the vanilla systems which have no > > interest in them - but maybe Christoph already has that well in hand. > > It is used in enhanced system accounting. An obvious CONFIG would be > CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT. Right. Make all the data fields and code dependent on an appropriate CONFIG_XXX macro. We talked about that a couple of weeks ago as AFAIK. I had a look at Frank's patch and it does not seem to touch the critical paths. Jay: Can you verify that the changes do not affect critical paths and that accounting is still working in the right way? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/