linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (updated)

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Message-Id: <1196797259.6073.17.camel@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:40:59 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, mbligh@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (updated)

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:25 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> - I also dump the equivalent of /proc/swaps (with kernel internal
>   information) at trace start to know what swap files are currently
>   used.

What about just enhancing /proc/swaps so that this information can be
useful to people other than those doing traces?

Now that we have /proc/$pid/pagemap, we expose some of the same
information about which userspace virtual addresses are stored where and
in which swapfile.  

-- Dave

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