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[209.85.208.179]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e14sm5243773ljb.75.2019.10.28.05.27.48 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:27:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-lj1-f179.google.com with SMTP id u22so11115043lji.7 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:27:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a05:651c:154:: with SMTP id c20mr4826222ljd.1.1572265668380; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:27:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <157225848971.557.16257813537984792761.stgit@buzz> In-Reply-To: <157225848971.557.16257813537984792761.stgit@buzz> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:27:32 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] fs/fcntl: add fcntl F_GET_RSS To: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: linux-fsdevel , Linux-MM , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux API , Michal Hocko , Alexander Viro , Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , Roman Gushchin Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:28 AM Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > This implements fcntl() for getting amount of resident memory in cache. > Kernel already maintains counter for each inode, this patch just exposes > it into userspace. Returned size is in kilobytes like values in procfs. This doesn't actually explain why anybody would want it, and what the usage scenario is. Linus