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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] pagemap: document KPF_KSM and show it in page-types
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:17:02 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090831071702.GB26634@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090831071425.GA26634@localhost>

It indicates to the system admin that processes mapping such pages may be
eating less physical memory than the reported numbers by legacy tools.

CC: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
CC: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
CC: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt |    4 ++++
 tools/vm/page-types.c        |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- linux-mm.orig/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt	2009-08-31 15:02:55.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-mm/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt	2009-08-31 15:05:02.000000000 +0800
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
     18. UNEVICTABLE
     19. HWPOISON
     20. NOPAGE
+    21. KSM
 
 Short descriptions to the page flags:
 
@@ -93,6 +94,9 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags:
 20. NOPAGE
     no page frame exists at the requested address
 
+21. KSM
+    identical memory pages dynamicly shared between one or more processes
+
     [IO related page flags]
  1. ERROR     IO error occurred
  3. UPTODATE  page has up-to-date data
--- linux-mm.orig/tools/vm/page-types.c	2009-08-31 15:00:24.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-mm/tools/vm/page-types.c	2009-08-31 15:02:10.000000000 +0800
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #define KPF_UNEVICTABLE		18
 #define KPF_HWPOISON		19
 #define KPF_NOPAGE		20
+#define KPF_KSM			21
 
 /* [32-] kernel hacking assistances */
 #define KPF_RESERVED		32
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ static char *page_flag_names[] = {
 	[KPF_UNEVICTABLE]	= "u:unevictable",
 	[KPF_HWPOISON]		= "X:hwpoison",
 	[KPF_NOPAGE]		= "n:nopage",
+	[KPF_KSM]		= "x:ksm",
 
 	[KPF_RESERVED]		= "r:reserved",
 	[KPF_MLOCKED]		= "m:mlocked",

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-31  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-08 17:39 [PATCH] Documentation/vm/.gitignore: Add page-types Josh Triplett
2009-08-12  6:51 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-08-31  4:58   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-08-31  6:56     ` [PATCH] page-types: move from Documentation/vm/ to tools/vm/ Wu Fengguang
2009-08-31  7:14       ` [PATCH] pagemap: export KPF_HWPOISON Wu Fengguang
2009-08-31  7:17         ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2009-08-31 15:39           ` [PATCH] pagemap: document KPF_KSM and show it in page-types Randy Dunlap
2009-09-01  7:55             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-01  8:00             ` [PATCH -v2] " Wu Fengguang
2009-08-31 16:41           ` [PATCH] " Chris Wright
2009-09-01  7:58             ` Wu Fengguang
2009-08-31  7:18         ` [PATCH] pagemap: export KPF_HWPOISON KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-09-01 17:50       ` [PATCH] page-types: move from Documentation/vm/ to tools/vm/ Christoph Lameter

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