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* [PATCH 0/2] Report the size of pages backing VMAs in /proc V3
@ 2008-10-16 15:58 Mel Gorman
  2008-10-16 15:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] Subject: [PATCH] Report the pagesize backing a VMA in /proc/pid/smaps Mel Gorman
  2008-10-16 15:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] Report the MMU pagesize " Mel Gorman
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mel Gorman @ 2008-10-16 15:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Alexey Dobriyan, Dave Hansen, KOSAKI Motohiro, Linux-MM, LKML,
	Mel Gorman

The following two patches add support for printing the size of pages used by
the kernel and the MMU to back VMAs. This can be used by a user to verify
that a hugepage-aware application is using the expected page sizes.

The first patch prints the size of page used by the kernel when allocating
pages for a VMA in /proc/pid/smaps. The second patch reports on
the size of page used by the MMU as it can differ - for example on POWER
using 64K as a base pagesize on older processors.

Changelog since V2
  o Drop changes to /proc/pid/maps - could not get agreement and it affects
    procps. Patch to procps was posted but fell into silence. Dropping
    patch as smaps gives the necessary information, just with a bit more
    legwork by the user
  o Drop redundant VM_BUG_ON (Alexey)

Changelog since V1
  o Fix build failure on !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
  o Uninline helper functions
  o Distinguish between base pagesize and MMU pagesize

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h |    6 ++++++
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c      |    7 +++++++
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c                 |    8 ++++++--
 include/linux/hugetlb.h            |    6 ++++++
 mm/hugetlb.c                       |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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