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

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:59:32 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Nikita Danilov <nikita@...sterfs.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] maps: Add /proc/pid/pagemap interface

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:03:04PM +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> 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.

That seems reasonable. We need page size, entry size (4 or 8 bytes), and
an endian marker. I'll see what I can come up with.

-- 
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