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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-11-07 00:08:17 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-11-07 00:08:17 +0300 |
commit | 512b7931ad0561ffe14265f9ff554a3c081b476b (patch) | |
tree | a94450d08468e094d2d92a495de4650faab09c1f /Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst | |
parent | fe91c4725aeed35023ba4f7a1e1adfebb6878c23 (diff) | |
parent | 658f9ae761b5965893727dd4edcdad56e5a439bb (diff) | |
download | linux-512b7931ad0561ffe14265f9ff554a3c081b476b.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"257 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
cleanups, kfence, and damon)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (257 commits)
mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
selftests/damon: support watermarks
mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst index 2175465c9bf2..9837fc8147dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst @@ -85,5 +85,26 @@ Usage cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner > page_owner_full.txt ./page_owner_sort page_owner_full.txt sorted_page_owner.txt + The general output of ``page_owner_full.txt`` is as follows: + + Page allocated via order XXX, ... + PFN XXX ... + // Detailed stack + + Page allocated via order XXX, ... + PFN XXX ... + // Detailed stack + + The ``page_owner_sort`` tool ignores ``PFN`` rows, puts the remaining rows + in buf, uses regexp to extract the page order value, counts the times + and pages of buf, and finally sorts them according to the times. + See the result about who allocated each page - in the ``sorted_page_owner.txt``. + in the ``sorted_page_owner.txt``. General output: + + XXX times, XXX pages: + Page allocated via order XXX, ... + // Detailed stack + + By default, ``page_owner_sort`` is sorted according to the times of buf. + If you want to sort by the pages nums of buf, use the ``-m`` parameter. |