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authorChristian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com>2018-08-18 01:44:59 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-18 02:20:28 +0300
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tools/vm/page-types.c: include shared map counts
Add a new flag that will read kpagecount for each PFN and print out the number of times the page is mapped along with the flags in the listing view. This information is useful in understanding and optimizing memory usage. Identifying pages which are not shared allows us to focus on adjusting the memory layout or access patterns for the sole owning process. Knowing the number of processes that share a page tells us how many other times we must make the same adjustments or how many processes to potentially disable. Truncated sample output: voffset map-cnt offset len flags 561a3591e 1 15fe8 1 ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________ 561a3591f 1 2b103 1 ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________ 561a36ca4 1 2cc78 1 ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________ 7f588bb4e 14 2273c 1 __RU_lA____M______________________________ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [chansen3@cisco.com: add documentation, tweak whitespace] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180705181204.5529-1-chansen3@cisco.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612153205.12879-1-chansen3@cisco.com Signed-off-by: Christian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -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.