Re: [PATCH 11/11] maps3: make page monitoring /proc file optional

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Oct 16 2007 - 01:26:26 EST


On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:

> Index: l/init/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- l.orig/init/Kconfig 2007-10-14 13:35:07.000000000 -0500
> +++ l/init/Kconfig 2007-10-15 17:18:16.000000000 -0500
> @@ -571,6 +571,15 @@ config SLOB
>
> endchoice
>
> +config PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
> + default y
> + bool "Enable /proc page monitoring" if EMBEDDED && PROC_FS && MMU
> + help
> + Various /proc files exist to monitor process memory utilization:
> + /proc/pid/smaps, /proc/pid/clear_refs, /proc/pid/pagemap,
> + /proc/kpagecount, and /proc/kpageflags. Disabling these
> + interfaces will reduce the size of the kernel by approximately 4kb.
> +
> endmenu # General setup
>
> config RT_MUTEXES

It's probably better not to include the text size savings since it will
most likely be outdated at some time in the future.
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