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authorChanghee Han <ch0.han@lge.com>2020-06-04 02:03:22 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-04 06:09:49 +0300
commit5b94ce2fcae2542c4d5d49176fa23eea638dc7b6 (patch)
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parent21e330fc632d6a288f73de48045b782cc51d501a (diff)
downloadlinux-5b94ce2fcae2542c4d5d49176fa23eea638dc7b6.tar.xz
tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line
To see a sorted result from page_owner, there must be a tiresome preprocessing step before running page_owner_sort. This patch simply filters out lines which start with "PFN" while reading the page owner report. Signed-off-by: Changhee Han <ch0.han@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200429052940.16968-1-ch0.han@lge.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
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+++ b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ Usage
4) Analyze information from page owner::
cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner > page_owner_full.txt
- grep -v ^PFN page_owner_full.txt > page_owner.txt
- ./page_owner_sort page_owner.txt sorted_page_owner.txt
+ ./page_owner_sort page_owner_full.txt sorted_page_owner.txt
See the result about who allocated each page
in the ``sorted_page_owner.txt``.