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authorBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-02-07 00:13:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-07 08:42:18 -0800
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Memory controller improve user interface
Change the interface to use bytes instead of pages. Page sizes can vary across platforms and configurations. A new strategy routine has been added to the resource counters infrastructure to format the data as desired. Suggested by David Rientjes, Andrew Morton and Herbert Poetzl Tested on a UML setup with the config for memory control enabled. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: possible race fix in res_counter] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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