linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/13] maps: Add /proc/pid/pagemap interface

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2007 22:03:04 +0400
From:	Nikita Danilov <nikita@...sterfs.com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] maps: Add /proc/pid/pagemap interface

Matt Mackall writes:

[...]

 > 
 > Now I could adjust these to only export u64s in some preferred
 > endianness. But given I already need details like the page size to
 > make any sense of it, it seems unnecessary. Also, the PFNs are fairly
 > opaque unless you're attempting to correlate them with /proc/kpagemap.

Alternatively, you can export some meta-data at the beginning of that
file like /proc/profile does.

Nikita.

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