Re: [patch] slub: allow stats to be cleared

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi David,

David Rientjes wrote:
> On a semi-related topic, it would have been nice to isolate all statistic 
> files to its own directory: /sys/kernel/slab/kmalloc-256/stats/..., for 
> example.  It would have made collecting (and now clearing) all statistics 
> much easier since userspace wouldn't need a predefined list of stat file 
> names to scan.  I wonder if Pekka would allow them to be moved...

It's a non-production configuration option and the only known user of 
the ABI is in slabinfo.c so maybe we can just go ahead and do that. 
Alternatively, I think we can preserve the current ABI with symbolic 
links in sysfs?

			Pekka
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