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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-17 16:49:31 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-17 16:49:31 -0700 |
commit | 6ada4e2826794bdf8d88f938a9ced0b80894b037 (patch) | |
tree | 4a39e46d6c4502ae9346566b2e384dcc2205c014 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
parent | 9bd553929f68921be0f2014dd06561e0c8249a0d (diff) | |
parent | 1e9264192961aa519595170aa8b0f7651a2ad28e (diff) | |
download | linux-6ada4e2826794bdf8d88f938a9ced0b80894b037.tar.bz2 |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things
- a few Y2038 fixes
- ntfs fixes
- arch/sh tweaks
- ocfs2 updates
- most of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (111 commits)
mm/hmm.c: remove unused variables align_start and align_end
fs/userfaultfd.c: remove redundant pointer uwq
mm, vmacache: hash addresses based on pmd
mm/list_lru: introduce list_lru_shrink_walk_irq()
mm/list_lru.c: pass struct list_lru_node* as an argument to __list_lru_walk_one()
mm/list_lru.c: move locking from __list_lru_walk_one() to its caller
mm/list_lru.c: use list_lru_walk_one() in list_lru_walk_node()
mm, swap: make CONFIG_THP_SWAP depend on CONFIG_SWAP
mm/sparse: delete old sparse_init and enable new one
mm/sparse: add new sparse_init_nid() and sparse_init()
mm/sparse: move buffer init/fini to the common place
mm/sparse: use the new sparse buffer functions in non-vmemmap
mm/sparse: abstract sparse buffer allocations
mm/hugetlb.c: don't zero 1GiB bootmem pages
mm, page_alloc: double zone's batchsize
mm/oom_kill.c: document oom_lock
mm/hugetlb: remove gigantic page support for HIGHMEM
mm, oom: remove sleep from under oom_lock
kernel/dma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from dma_alloc_from_contiguous()
mm/cma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from cma_alloc()
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst index 6f7b7ca1add3..df9394fb39c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst @@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ workload one should: are not reclaimable, he or she can filter them out using ``/proc/kpageflags``. +The page-types tool in the tools/vm directory can be used to assist in this. +If the tool is run initially with the appropriate option, it will mark all the +queried pages as idle. Subsequent runs of the tool can then show which pages have +their idle flag cleared in the interim. + See :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst <pagemap>` for more information about ``/proc/pid/pagemap``, ``/proc/kpageflags``, and ``/proc/kpagecgroup``. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst index 577af85beb41..3f7bade2c231 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ There are four components to pagemap: * ``/proc/kpagecount``. This file contains a 64-bit count of the number of times each page is mapped, indexed by PFN. +The page-types tool in the tools/vm directory can be used to query the +number of times a page is mapped. + * ``/proc/kpageflags``. This file contains a 64-bit set of flags for each page, indexed by PFN. |