| From: |
| Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> |
| To: |
| Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH 0/2] Report the size of pages backing VMAs in /proc V3 |
| Date: |
| Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:58:33 +0100 |
| Message-ID: |
| <1224172715-17667-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> |
| Cc: |
| Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> |
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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(-)