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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:53:46 -0600
From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fweisbec@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Patch] mm tracepoints
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Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 18:10 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> Looks pretty good and useful to me. I've Cc:-ed more mm folks, 
>> it would be nice to hear their opinion about these tracepoints.
>>
>> Andrew, Nick, Peter, what do you think?
> 
> Bit sad we use the struct mm_struct * as mm identifier (little %lx vs %p
> confusion there too), but I suppose there simply isn't anything better.

Could we use the tgid as an mm identifier?  Or does the possibility of 
CLONE_VM & !CLONE_THREAD preclude this?

Chris
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