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author | Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> | 2012-03-21 19:33:58 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-21 20:54:57 -0400 |
commit | 807f0ccfe15551afd514c062585045c88ca62037 (patch) | |
tree | 95e4b04508a85aacda0e4fc5d4a86af3ff393549 /Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | |
parent | e873c49fbfdd595481976b915850e682441bcbec (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
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 | ||
64 | Short descriptions to the page flags: | 65 | Short descriptions to the page flags: |
65 | 66 | ||
@@ -97,6 +98,9 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags: | |||
97 | 21. KSM | 98 | 21. 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 | ||
101 | 22. 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 |