PSS/USS (Was: The "iGoogle bug")

[Pádraig Brady]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>>> This gives even better results:
>>>
>>>  http://lwn.net/Articles/230975/
>>>  http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/042407-kernel.html
>>>
>>> The PSS and USS are are the Right Thing: they give users and
>>> developers a honest and accurate figure.
>>>
>>> The downside is that it would require a very fresh kernel or 13
>>> invasive VM patches.
>>>
>> I've just updated my ps_mem.py tool to use PSS when available:
>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py
> 
> Cool!
> 
> But I don't see the PSS support in 2.6.23, and the patchset originally
> posted on the lkml is stale.
> 
> Where does up-to-date kernel support for PSS live?

Oops sorry.
I saw the patch here and assumed it was going into 2.6.23:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/16/306

It would be great to get this in ASAP,
as it's a trivial but very useful extension to smaps

cheers,
Pádraig.