Re: [PATCH 1/2] proc: report file/anon bit in /proc/pid/pagemap

[Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>]

On 04/27/2012 04:39 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This is an implementation of Andrew's proposal to extend the pagemap file
> bits to report what is missing about tasks' working set.
> 
> The problem with the working set detection is multilateral. In the criu
> (checkpoint/restore) project we dump the tasks' memory into image files
> and to do it properly we need to detect which pages inside mappings are
> really in use. The mincore syscall I though could help with this did not.
> First, it doesn't report swapped pages, thus we cannot find out which
> parts of anonymous mappings to dump. Next, it does report pages from page
> cache as present even if they are not mapped, and it doesn't make
> difference between private pages that has been cow-ed and private pages
> that has not been cow-ed.
> 
> Note, that issue with swap pages is critical -- we must dump swap pages to
> image file. But the issues with file pages are optimization -- we can take
> all file pages to image, this would be correct, but if we know that a page
> is not mapped or not cow-ed, we can remove them from dump file. The dump
> would still be self-consistent, though significantly smaller in size (up
> to 10 times smaller on real apps).
> 
> Andrew noticed, that the proc pagemap file solved 2 of 3 above issues -- it
> reports whether a page is present or swapped and it doesn't report not
> mapped page cache pages. But, it doesn't distinguish cow-ed file pages from
> not cow-ed.
> 
> I would like to make the last unused bit in this file to report whether the
> page mapped into respective pte is PageAnon or not.
> 
> v2:
> * Rebase to uptodate kernel
> * Fix file/anon bit reporting for migration entries
> * Fix frame bits interval comment, it uses 55 lower bits (64 - 3 - 6)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>

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