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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add /proc/<pid>/numa_vamaps for numa node
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Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 07:53:21 -0500 (CDT)
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On Mon, 7 May 2018, prakash.sangappa wrote:

> > each address for each page? Length of the VMA segment?
> > Physical address?
>
> Need numa node information for each virtual address with pages mapped.
> No need of physical address.

You need per page information? Note that there can only be one page
per virtual address. Or are we talking about address ranges?

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt ?

Also the move_pages syscall has the ability to determine the location of
individual pages.