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From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export mlock information via smaps
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:42:56 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100817144256.GC3884@barrios-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008171039.31070.knikanth@suse.de>

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:39:31AM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> Currently there is no way to find whether a process has locked its pages in
> memory or not. And which of the memory regions are locked in memory.
> 
> Add a new field to perms field 'l' to export this information. The information
> exported via maps file is not changed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>

Cced Matt. 

It would be good if we have a such thing. 
In addtion, code itself looks good to me. :)

But I have a question. 
Why didn't you change /proc/map? 
Due to ABI? So then, Is it okay to change smaps ABI?

I don't know there is any well-known tool to use smap information. 
Maybe Matt have the answer. 


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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-17 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17  5:09 [PATCH] Export mlock information via smaps Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-08-17 14:42 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2010-08-17 16:25 ` Matt Mackall
2010-08-18  4:53   ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-08-18  5:52     ` Balbir Singh
2010-08-18  6:49       ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-08-18  6:56         ` Balbir Singh
2010-08-18 15:12         ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-20  0:25         ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-20 21:57           ` Matt Mackall
2010-08-18 15:07   ` Wu Fengguang

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