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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:05:39 +1000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH] large /proc/mounts and friends
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Hi,

> 	Folks, patch below adds a new way to handle large files on procfs.
> I've done that for /proc/mounts and /proc/ksyms, but the same trick can
> be pulled for anything else.  The basic idea: if file consists of records
> generated by some sequence of objects, we can just describe an iterator and
> use precanned functions to turn it into a file.  That (and helpers for
> formatting) is done in fs/seq_file.c and include/linux/seq_file.h.

Ahh good I was just going to fix /proc/stat and /proc/interrupts; given
enough interrupts and cpus they both overflow 1 page and cause random
memory corruption.

Anton
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