Re: [PATCH] task_struct: remove writeonly counters

[Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:01:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 06:29:51 +0400
> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > ...
> >
> > +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> > @@ -962,8 +962,6 @@ #endif
> >   * to a stack based synchronous wait) if its doing sync IO.
> >   */
> >  	wait_queue_t *io_wait;
> > -/* i/o counters(bytes read/written, #syscalls */
> > -	u64 rchar, wchar, syscr, syscw;
> 
> This is kinda funny.  These fields were added a year and a half ago, with
> the intention that the info be made available to userspace.  But then
> things got horridly stuck.  It's only in the past couple of weeks that we've
> gained appropriate reporting-to-userspace infrastructure to be able to use
> these fields.
> 
> And lo, on the very day when you propose removing these fields, Jay posts a
> new patchset ("add CSA accounting to taskstats") which finally gets around to
> using them.

[checks archives]
*cough* That was a coincidence, I assure you.

> So..  we should keep these fields for now - we can perhaps remove them (in
> less than 1.5 years) if for some reason the CSA patches crash and burn (I
> don't think they will).

Perhaps, Jay can properly ifdef them with CONFIG_CSA_ACCT or something?
And remove in-file changelogs 'cause there is git?

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