Re: [PATCH v2] After swapout/swapin private dirty mappings are reported clean in smaps

Balbir Singh
2010-09-15T14:09:23Z

* Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> [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?

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