linux-kernel - Re: [patch] x86: add code to dump the (kernel) page tables for visual inspection

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Date:	Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:46:52 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...x.de,
	hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: add code to dump the (kernel) page tables for visual
 inspection

Arjan van de Ven a écrit :
> Subject: x86: add code to dump the (kernel) page tables for visual inspection by kernel developers
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> This patch adds code to the kernel to have an (optional)
> /proc/kernel_page_tables debug file that basically dumps the kernel
> pagetables; this allows us kernel developers to verify that nothing fishy is
> going on and that the various mappings are set up correctly. This was quite
> useful in finding various change_page_attr() bugs, and is very likely to be
> useful in the future as well.
> 

Seems nice Arjan, but could we also add NUMA information ?

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