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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2012-03-21 16:33:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 17:54:57 -0700
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pagemap: document KPF_THP and make page-types aware of it
page-types, which is a common user of pagemap, gets aware of thp with this patch. This helps system admins and kernel hackers know about how thp works. Here is a sample output of page-types over a thp: $ page-types -p <pid> --raw --list voffset offset len flags ... 7f9d40200 3f8400 1 ___U_lA____Ma_bH______t____________ 7f9d40201 3f8401 1ff ________________T_____t____________ flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags 0x0000000000410000 511 1 ________________T_____t____________ compound_tail,thp 0x000000000040d868 1 0 ___U_lA____Ma_bH______t____________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked,compound_head,thp Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
19. HWPOISON
20. NOPAGE
21. KSM
+ 22. THP
Short descriptions to the page flags:
@@ -97,6 +98,9 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags:
21. KSM
identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes
+22. THP
+ contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages
+
[IO related page flags]
1. ERROR IO error occurred
3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data
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