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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] mm: Mark pages allocated through vmalloc
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 11:20:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180302082014.4zlhvot6lzg75x66@node.shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180301211523.21104-4-willy@infradead.org>

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 01:15:22PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
> 
> Use a bit in page_type to mark pages which have been allocated through
> vmalloc.  This can be helpful when debugging crashdumps or analysing
> memory fragmentation.  Add a KPF flag to report these pages to userspace
> and update page-types.c to interpret that flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-02  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-01 21:15 [PATCH v4 0/4] Record additional page allocation reasons Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-01 21:15 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] s390: Use _refcount for pgtables Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-01 21:15 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: Split page_type out from _map_count Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-02  8:18   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-01 21:15 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] mm: Mark pages allocated through vmalloc Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-02  8:20   ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2018-03-01 21:15 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] mm: Mark pages in use for page tables Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-02  8:21   ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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