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From: kirill@shutemov.name (Kirill A. Shutemov)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC V2] mm:add zero_page _mapcount when mapped into user space
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:30:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141202113014.GA22683@node.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35FD53F367049845BC99AC72306C23D103E688B313E0@CNBJMBX05.corpusers.net>

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 05:27:36PM +0800, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> This patch add/dec zero_page's _mapcount to make sure
> the mapcount is correct for zero_page,
> so that when read from /proc/kpagecount, zero_page's
> mapcount is also correct, userspace process like procrank can
> calculate PSS correctly.

I don't have specific code path to point to, but I would expect zero page
with non-zero mapcount would cause a problem with rmap.

How do you test the change?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-02 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-02  9:27 [RFC V2] mm:add zero_page _mapcount when mapped into user space Wang, Yalin
2014-12-02 11:30 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2014-12-04  6:10   ` Wang, Yalin
2014-12-04 12:28     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-12-05  6:39       ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-12-05  8:08         ` Wang, Yalin

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