linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/13] maps: pagemap, kpagemap, and related cleanups

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:58:08 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] maps: pagemap, kpagemap, and related cleanups

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:24:51 -0500 Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> wrote:

> > > From /proc/kpagemap + /proc/*/pagemap, you can
> > > basically synthesize any statistic you want, including all the
> > > existing ones. For some data, /proc/pid/smaps (or /proc/meminfo) will
> > > be considerably more efficient.
> > 
> > You'd need to poke clear_refs beforehand to make the referenced bits useful.
> > 
> > Actually, we also need to run around the ptes and collect the pte-referenced
> > bits too.  I don't think your code copes with any of that?
> 
> No, and it probably should. Perhaps dirty as well, though I've kindof
> lost the plot on how that works lately.

Dirty is OK: the VM keeps pte-dirtiness and page-dirtiness in sync now.
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