From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr0-f199.google.com (mail-wr0-f199.google.com [209.85.128.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54D96B0388 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:22:28 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wr0-f199.google.com with SMTP id p36so18084211wrc.7 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from gum.cmpxchg.org (gum.cmpxchg.org. [85.214.110.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j59si6629984wrj.283.2017.02.23.08.22.27 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:22:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:16:29 -0500 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 6/6] proc: show MADV_FREE pages info in smaps Message-ID: <20170223161629.GD4031@cmpxchg.org> References: <7f22d33b2f388ce33448faa75be75f9a52d57052.1487788131.git.shli@fb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7f22d33b2f388ce33448faa75be75f9a52d57052.1487788131.git.shli@fb.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Shaohua Li Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kernel-team@fb.com, mhocko@suse.com, minchan@kernel.org, hughd@google.com, riel@redhat.com, mgorman@techsingularity.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:50:44AM -0800, Shaohua Li wrote: > show MADV_FREE pages info of each vma in smaps. The interface is for > diganose or monitoring purpose, userspace could use it to understand > what happens in the application. Since userspace could dirty MADV_FREE > pages without notice from kernel, this interface is the only place we > can get accurate accounting info about MADV_FREE pages. > > Cc: Michal Hocko > Cc: Minchan Kim > Cc: Hugh Dickins > Cc: Johannes Weiner > Cc: Rik van Riel > Cc: Mel Gorman > Cc: Andrew Morton > Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Acked-by: Johannes Weiner -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org