From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10646B004A for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:09:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d03relay01.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.226]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o8FDxQ8a002509 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:59:26 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay01.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id o8FE9Frb163068 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:09:15 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id o8FE9ENu002513 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:09:14 -0600 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:39:11 +0530 From: Balbir Singh Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] After swapout/swapin private dirty mappings are reported clean in smaps Message-ID: <20100915140911.GC4383@balbir.in.ibm.com> Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20100915134724.C9EE.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <201009151034.22497.knikanth@suse.de> <20100915141710.C9F7.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <201009151201.11359.knikanth@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201009151201.11359.knikanth@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Nikanth Karthikesan Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Richard Guenther , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Michael Matz , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Nikanth Karthikesan [2010-09-15 12:01:11]: > How? Current smaps information without this patch provides incorrect > information. Just because a private dirty page became part of swap cache, it > shown as clean and backed by a file. If it is shown as clean and backed by > swap then it is fine. > How is GDB using this information? -- Three Cheers, Balbir -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org