linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/6] Documentation: update Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt

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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2014 17:39:46 -0400
From:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	"Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Documentation: update Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt

This patch adds a chapter about kpagecache interface.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
---
 Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git v3.14-rc6.orig/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt v3.14-rc6/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
index 5948e455c4d2..c8039263fc45 100644
--- v3.14-rc6.orig/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+++ v3.14-rc6/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
@@ -150,3 +150,32 @@ once.
 Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting
 the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you sought an odd number of bytes
 into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes.
+
+
+kpagecache, from file perspective
+---------------------------------
+
+Similarly to pagemap, we have a interface /proc/kpagecache to let userspace
+know about pagecache profile for a given file. Unlike pagemap interface,
+we don't have to mmap() and fault in the target file, so the impact on other
+workloads (maybe profile targets) is minimum.
+
+To use this interface, firstly we open it and write the name of the target
+file to it for setup. And then we can read the pagecache info of the file.
+The file contains the array of 64-bit entries for each page offset. Data
+format is like below:
+
+    * Bits  0-49  page frame number (PFN) if present
+    * Bits 50-59  zero (reserved)
+    * Bits 60-63  pagecache tags
+
+Good example is tools/vm/page-types.c, where we can get the list of pages
+belonging to the file like below:
+
+  $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=file bs=4096 count=2
+  $ date >> file
+  $ tools/vm/page-types -f file -Nl
+  pgoff	pfn	tags	flags
+  0	3305f	0	__RU_l______________________________
+  1	374bb	0	__RU_l______________________________
+  2	6c5ac	1	___UDlA_____________________________
-- 
1.8.5.3

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