linux-kernel - [RFC][PATCH 3/3] pagemap: document KPF_THP and show make page-types aware of it

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Date:	Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:38:39 -0500
From:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] pagemap: document KPF_THP and show make page-types aware of it

page-types, which is a common user of pagemap, gets aware of thp
with this patch. This helps system admins and kernel hackers to know
about how thp works.
Here is a sample output of page-types over a thp:

  voffset offset  len     flags
  ...
  7f9d40200       3fd200  1       ___U_lA____Ma_b_______t____________
  7f9d40201       3fd201  1ff     ______________________t____________
  ...

  flags      page-count       MB  symbolic-flags                     long-symbolic-flags
  0x0000000000400000             511        1  ______________________t____________        thp
  0x0000000000405868               1        0  ___U_lA____Ma_b_______t____________        uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked,thp

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
---
 Documentation/vm/page-types.c |    2 ++
 Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt  |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git 3.2-rc5.orig/Documentation/vm/page-types.c 3.2-rc5/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
index 7445caa..0b13f02 100644
--- 3.2-rc5.orig/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
+++ 3.2-rc5/Documentation/vm/page-types.c
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@
 #define KPF_HWPOISON		19
 #define KPF_NOPAGE		20
 #define KPF_KSM			21
+#define KPF_THP			22
 
 /* [32-] kernel hacking assistances */
 #define KPF_RESERVED		32
@@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ static const char *page_flag_names[] = {
 	[KPF_HWPOISON]		= "X:hwpoison",
 	[KPF_NOPAGE]		= "n:nopage",
 	[KPF_KSM]		= "x:ksm",
+	[KPF_THP]		= "t:thp",
 
 	[KPF_RESERVED]		= "r:reserved",
 	[KPF_MLOCKED]		= "m:mlocked",
diff --git 3.2-rc5.orig/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt 3.2-rc5/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
index df09b96..666d12b 100644
--- 3.2-rc5.orig/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+++ 3.2-rc5/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
     19. HWPOISON
     20. NOPAGE
     21. KSM
+    22. THP
 
 Short descriptions to the page flags:
 
@@ -97,6 +98,9 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags:
 21. KSM
     identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes
 
+22. THP
+    continuous pages which construct transparent hugepages
+
     [IO related page flags]
  1. ERROR     IO error occurred
  3. UPTODATE  page has up-to-date data
-- 
1.7.7.3

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