linux-kernel - [patch -mm] tools, vm: new option to specify kpageflags file fix fix

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Date:   Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:41:08 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [patch -mm] tools, vm: new option to specify kpageflags file fix
 fix

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:01:01 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
> 
> > page-types currently hardcodes /proc/kpageflags as the file to parse.  
> > This works when using the tool to examine the state of pageflags on the 
> > same system, but does not allow storing a snapshot of pageflags at a given 
> > time to debug issues nor on a different system.
> > 
> > This allows the user to specify a saved version of kpageflags with a new 
> > page-types -F option.
> > 
> 
> This, methinks:
> 
> --- a/tools/vm/page-types.c~tools-vm-new-option-to-specify-kpageflags-file-fix
> +++ a/tools/vm/page-types.c
> @@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ static void usage(void)
>  "            -N|--no-summary            Don't show summary info\n"
>  "            -X|--hwpoison              hwpoison pages\n"
>  "            -x|--unpoison              unpoison pages\n"
> -"            -F|--kpageflags            kpageflags file to parse\n"
> +"            -F|--kpageflags filename   kpageflags file to parse\n"
>  "            -h|--help                  Show this usage message\n"
>  "flags:\n"
>  "            0x10                       bitfield format, e.g.\n"

Please find a "fix fix" below per Naoya.  Thanks both!

diff --git a/tools/vm/page-types.c b/tools/vm/page-types.c
--- a/tools/vm/page-types.c
+++ b/tools/vm/page-types.c
@@ -169,10 +169,10 @@ static int		opt_raw;	/* for kernel developers */
 static int		opt_list;	/* list pages (in ranges) */
 static int		opt_no_summary;	/* don't show summary */
 static pid_t		opt_pid;	/* process to walk */
-const char *		opt_file;	/* file or directory path */
+const char		*opt_file;	/* file or directory path */
 static uint64_t		opt_cgroup;	/* cgroup inode */
 static int		opt_list_cgroup;/* list page cgroup */
-static const char *	opt_kpageflags;	/* kpageflags file to parse */
+static const char	*opt_kpageflags;/* kpageflags file to parse */
 
 #define MAX_ADDR_RANGES	1024
 static int		nr_addr_ranges;