From: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com>,
Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>,
Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@redhat.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH RFC 5/5] mm/ksm, proc: add remote madvise documentation
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 11:42:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190516094234.9116-6-oleksandr@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190516094234.9116-1-oleksandr@redhat.com>
Document respective /proc/<pid>/madvise knob.
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 66cad5c86171..17106e435bba 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ Table of Contents
3.9 /proc/<pid>/map_files - Information about memory mapped files
3.10 /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns - Task timerslack value
3.11 /proc/<pid>/patch_state - Livepatch patch operation state
+ 3.12 /proc/<pid>/madvise - Remote madvise
4 Configuring procfs
4.1 Mount options
@@ -1948,6 +1949,18 @@ patched. If the patch is being enabled, then the task has already been
patched. If the patch is being disabled, then the task hasn't been
unpatched yet.
+3.12 /proc/<pid>/madvise - Remote madvise
+--------------------------------------------
+This write-only file allows executing madvise operation for another task.
+
+If CONFIG_KSM is enabled, the following actions are available:
+
+ * marking task's memory as mergeable:
+ # echo merge > /proc/<pid>/madvise
+
+ * unmerging all the task's memory:
+ # echo unmerge > /proc/<pid>/madvise
+
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Configuring procfs
--
2.21.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-16 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-16 9:42 [PATCH RFC 0/5] mm/ksm, proc: introduce remote madvise Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 9:42 ` [PATCH RFC 1/5] proc: introduce madvise placeholder Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 9:42 ` [PATCH RFC 2/5] mm/ksm: introduce ksm_madvise_merge() helper Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 9:42 ` [PATCH RFC 3/5] mm/ksm: introduce ksm_madvise_unmerge() helper Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 9:42 ` [PATCH RFC 4/5] mm/ksm, proc: introduce remote merge Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 10:00 ` Jann Horn
2019-05-16 14:20 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 14:43 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 16:09 ` Jann Horn
2019-05-16 16:06 ` Jann Horn
2019-05-16 16:29 ` Aaron Tomlin
2019-05-16 9:42 ` Oleksandr Natalenko [this message]
2019-05-16 10:44 ` [PATCH RFC 0/5] mm/ksm, proc: introduce remote madvise Michal Hocko
2019-05-16 14:21 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-16 17:24 ` Alexey Dobriyan
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