From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762983AbYBEVl5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:41:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758881AbYBEVlL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:41:11 -0500 Received: from neuf-infra-smtp-out-sp604006av.neufgp.fr ([84.96.92.121]:51457 "EHLO neuf-infra-smtp-out-sp604006av.neufgp.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762772AbYBEVlJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:41:09 -0500 Message-ID: <47A8CB3C.1090101@cosmosbay.com> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:46:52 +0100 From: Eric Dumazet User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@tglx.de, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [patch] x86: add code to dump the (kernel) page tables for visual inspection References: <20080204222641.4488e6a7@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20080204222641.4488e6a7@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven a écrit : > Subject: x86: add code to dump the (kernel) page tables for visual inspection by kernel developers > From: Arjan van de Ven > > This patch adds code to the kernel to have an (optional) > /proc/kernel_page_tables debug file that basically dumps the kernel > pagetables; this allows us kernel developers to verify that nothing fishy is > going on and that the various mappings are set up correctly. This was quite > useful in finding various change_page_attr() bugs, and is very likely to be > useful in the future as well. > Seems nice Arjan, but could we also add NUMA information ?