aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/vm
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorWang, Yalin <Yalin.Wang@sonymobile.com>2015-02-11 18:24:51 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-11 20:06:00 -0500
commit56873f43abdcd574b25105867a990f067747b2f4 (patch)
treebe55c69ee61da7b4e10e46c89e62a2ca68adaf81 /Documentation/vm
parent1d148e218a0d0566b1c06f2f45f1436d53b049b2 (diff)
mm:add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for /proc/kpageflags
Add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for zero_page, so that userspace processes can detect zero_page in /proc/kpageflags, and then do memory analysis more accurately. Signed-off-by: Yalin Wang <yalin.wang@sonymobile.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
index 5948e455c4d2..6fbd55ef6b45 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
62 20. NOPAGE 62 20. NOPAGE
63 21. KSM 63 21. KSM
64 22. THP 64 22. THP
65 23. BALLOON
66 24. ZERO_PAGE
65 67
66Short descriptions to the page flags: 68Short descriptions to the page flags:
67 69
@@ -102,6 +104,12 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags:
10222. THP 10422. THP
103 contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages 105 contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages
104 106
10723. BALLOON
108 balloon compaction page
109
11024. ZERO_PAGE
111 zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page
112
105 [IO related page flags] 113 [IO related page flags]
106 1. ERROR IO error occurred 114 1. ERROR IO error occurred
107 3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data 115 3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data