From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
To: Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michael Matz <matz@novell.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:08:20 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009192308.20500.knikanth@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009192307.09309.knikanth@suse.de>
Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
---
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a6aca87..a9c85a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc
statm Process memory status information
status Process status in human readable form
wchan If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is set, a pre-decoded wchan
+ pagemap Page table
stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE
smaps a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of
each mapping
@@ -397,6 +398,9 @@ To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process
> echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect.
+The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags
+using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using
+/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt.
1.2 Kernel data
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-20 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-14 11:10 [PATCH] After swapout/swapin private dirty mappings become clean Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-14 11:33 ` Richard Guenther
2010-09-14 17:12 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-14 17:14 ` [PATCH v2] After swapout/swapin private dirty mappings are reported clean in smaps Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-15 0:26 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-15 4:38 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-15 4:48 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-15 5:04 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-15 5:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-15 6:31 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-15 14:09 ` Balbir Singh
2010-09-15 14:14 ` Richard Guenther
2010-09-15 14:46 ` Matt Mackall
2010-09-15 14:53 ` Richard Guenther
2010-09-15 17:24 ` Matt Mackall
2010-09-15 19:08 ` Richard Guenther
2010-09-15 19:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-15 19:46 ` Matt Mackall
2010-09-15 19:53 ` Richard Guenther
2010-09-15 21:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-16 3:26 ` [PATCH] Export amount of anonymous memory in a mapping via smaps Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-16 3:52 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-16 6:04 ` [PATCH] Document the new Anonymous field in smaps Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-16 6:34 ` [PATCH] smaps: fix dirty pages accounting KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-16 16:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-16 16:50 ` [PATCH] Document the new Anonymous field in smaps Hugh Dickins
2010-09-17 6:04 ` [PATCH v2] " Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-20 7:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2010-09-20 19:24 ` Matt Mackall
2010-09-16 16:40 ` [PATCH] Export amount of anonymous memory in a mapping via smaps Hugh Dickins
2010-09-15 17:41 ` [PATCH v2] After swapout/swapin private dirty mappings are reported clean in smaps Balbir Singh
2010-09-19 17:37 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-19 17:38 ` Nikanth Karthikesan [this message]
2010-09-20 21:27 ` [PATCH] Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Matt Mackall
2010-09-20 5:24 ` [PATCH v2] After swapout/swapin private dirty mappings are reported clean in smaps Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-20 14:30 ` Richard Guenther
2010-09-15 0:24 ` [PATCH] After swapout/swapin private dirty mappings become clean KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-15 4:37 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-15 4:46 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-15 5:00 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-15 5:15 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-15 6:29 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-15 8:40 ` Richard Guenther
2010-09-16 1:29 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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