From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754138Ab0IOOJX (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:09:23 -0400 Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:49901 "EHLO e8.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753181Ab0IOOJW (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:09:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:39:11 +0530 From: Balbir Singh To: Nikanth Karthikesan Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Richard Guenther , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Michael Matz , Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * 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