From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754108Ab1GFJAv (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 05:00:51 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:37466 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753329Ab1GFJAu (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 05:00:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 02:01:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ankita Garg Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm,debug: VM framework to capture memory reference pattern Message-Id: <20110706020103.53ed8706.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1309854159-8277-1-git-send-email-ankita@in.ibm.com> References: <1309854159-8277-1-git-send-email-ankita@in.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:52:34 +0530 Ankita Garg wrote: > > This patch series is an instrumentation/debug infrastructure that captures > the memory reference pattern of applications (workloads). Can't the interfaces described in Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt be used for this?