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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2012-03-21 19:33:58 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 20:54:57 -0400
commit807f0ccfe15551afd514c062585045c88ca62037 (patch)
tree95e4b04508a85aacda0e4fc5d4a86af3ff393549
parente873c49fbfdd595481976b915850e682441bcbec (diff)
pagemap: document KPF_THP and make page-types aware of it
page-types, which is a common user of pagemap, gets aware of thp with this patch. This helps system admins and kernel hackers know about how thp works. Here is a sample output of page-types over a thp: $ page-types -p <pid> --raw --list voffset offset len flags ... 7f9d40200 3f8400 1 ___U_lA____Ma_bH______t____________ 7f9d40201 3f8401 1ff ________________T_____t____________ flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags 0x0000000000410000 511 1 ________________T_____t____________ compound_tail,thp 0x000000000040d868 1 0 ___U_lA____Ma_bH______t____________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked,compound_head,thp Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/page-types.c2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
index 7445caa26d05..0b13f02d4059 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
+++ b/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@
98#define KPF_HWPOISON 19 98#define KPF_HWPOISON 19
99#define KPF_NOPAGE 20 99#define KPF_NOPAGE 20
100#define KPF_KSM 21 100#define KPF_KSM 21
101#define KPF_THP 22
101 102
102/* [32-] kernel hacking assistances */ 103/* [32-] kernel hacking assistances */
103#define KPF_RESERVED 32 104#define KPF_RESERVED 32
@@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ static const char *page_flag_names[] = {
147 [KPF_HWPOISON] = "X:hwpoison", 148 [KPF_HWPOISON] = "X:hwpoison",
148 [KPF_NOPAGE] = "n:nopage", 149 [KPF_NOPAGE] = "n:nopage",
149 [KPF_KSM] = "x:ksm", 150 [KPF_KSM] = "x:ksm",
151 [KPF_THP] = "t:thp",
150 152
151 [KPF_RESERVED] = "r:reserved", 153 [KPF_RESERVED] = "r:reserved",
152 [KPF_MLOCKED] = "m:mlocked", 154 [KPF_MLOCKED] = "m:mlocked",
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
index df09b9650a81..4600cbe3d6be 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
60 19. HWPOISON 60 19. HWPOISON
61 20. NOPAGE 61 20. NOPAGE
62 21. KSM 62 21. KSM
63 22. THP
63 64
64Short descriptions to the page flags: 65Short descriptions to the page flags:
65 66
@@ -97,6 +98,9 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags:
9721. KSM 9821. KSM
98 identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes 99 identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes
99 100
10122. THP
102 contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages
103
100 [IO related page flags] 104 [IO related page flags]
101 1. ERROR IO error occurred 105 1. ERROR IO error occurred
102 3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data 106 3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data