Re: [PATCH]: Adding a counter in vma to indicate the number of physical_pages_backing it

[Andi Kleen]

> Providing useful information about memory consumption is hardly
> debugging kludge. 

I strongly believe anything that shows virtual addresses is for debugging
only. If your monitoring systems needs to look at VMAs it is doing
something very wrong or trying to do something that shouldn't be 
in user space.

-Andi
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