[PATCH v5 8/8] add a new interface to show the memory usage of 1st kernel

[Baoquan He]

On 08/25/14 at 04:04pm, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 02:36:22PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
 
> > The print is like below:
> > 
> > ~$ ./makedumpfile --mem-usage /proc/kcore
> > The kernel version is not supported.
> > The created dumpfile may be incomplete.
> 
> I still think that above messages should go. It does not make
> any sense with --mem-usage. No dumpfile is being created here.

This is printed by function get_kernel_version(), it will be used by
other makedumpfile main code flows too. This message is used to warn
users that users' using kernel may not be tested suffciently. I think
those tests are mainly taken by Atsushi. When he finished sufficient
tests on a new version of kernel, the LATEST_VERSION will be changed to
be a larger value. I am fine with this message, since it won't occur on
our distribution, anyway kernel for distribution are all tested. And if
LATEST_VERSION is older than our distribution kernel, maintainer may be
pushed to take tests and update this value. So don't worry about this
message.

But I would like to change the message like below to clean up
misunderstanding if Atsushi doesn't object, this mostly occur when
people working on latest upstream kernel.
-------------------------------------------------
The kernel version is not supported.
The makedumpfile operation may not be successful.
--------------------------------------------------
> 
> > Excluding unnecessary pages        : [100.0 %] |
> 
> 
> > 
> > Page number of memory in different use
> > --------------------------------------------------
> 
> I think above header can completely go away.  It kind of looks odd.

OK, will remove it.

> 
> > TYPE		PAGES			EXCLUDABLE	DESCRIPTION
> > ZERO		29149           	yes		Pages filled with zero
> > CACHE		171288          	yes		Cache pages
> > CACHE_PRIVATE	12051           	yes		Cache pages + private
> > USER		31816           	yes		User process pages
> > FREE		3700059         	yes		Free pages
> > KERN_DATA	105305          	no		Dumpable kernel data 
> > 
> > Total pages on system:	4049668         
> > 
> > Showing page number of memory in different use successfully.
> 
> I think we don't need above line. I am not even sure what does it mean.

Will remove it.

> > 
> > makedumpfile Completed.
> 
> We don't need above line either.

This is also a public message printing, means if makedumpfile operation
is successful or not. Maybe I can add a check like below:

@@ -9546,7 +9553,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
        retcd = COMPLETED;
 out:
        MSG("\n");
-       if (retcd == COMPLETED)
+       if ((retcd == COMPLETED) && (!info->flag_mem_usage))
                MSG("makedumpfile Completed.\n");
        else
                MSG("makedumpfile Failed.\n");

Hi Atsushi,

How do you think about this? And for the excluding progress indication
too, add a check that if it's mem-usage handling, not printing.

Thanks
Baoquan

> 
> In output we should just show the actual table. If there is an error, 
> we should output error and exit (no table).

> 
> Thanks
> Vivek
> 
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