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Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: slab: output reclaimable flag in /proc/slabinfo

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On 9/14/17 10:27 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> Well /proc/slabinfo is a legacy interface. The infomation if a slab is
> reclaimable is available via the slabinfo tool. We would break a format
> that is relied upon by numerous tools.

Thanks for pointing this out. It would be unacceptable if it would break 
the backward compatibility.

A follow-up question is do we know what tools rely on the slabinfo format?

 From my point of view, although /proc/slabinfo is legacy, it sounds it 
is still used very often by the users.

Thanks,
Yang

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[RFC] oom: capture unreclaimable slab info in oom message when kernel panic "Yang Shi" <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-09-14 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 1/3] mm: slab: output reclaimable flag in /proc/slabinfo "Yang Shi" <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-09-14 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: slab: output reclaimable flag in  /proc/slabinfo Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-09-14 19:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: slab: output reclaimable flag in /proc/slabinfo "Yang Shi" <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-09-14 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH 2/3] tools: slabinfo: add "-U" option to show unreclaimable slabs only "Yang Shi" <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-09-14 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] tools: slabinfo: add "-U" option to show unreclaimable  slabs only Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-09-14 19:30 +0200

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