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Message-ID: <47C6C828.5040601@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:41:44 -0600
From: YM Yen <yminyen@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Walking User mode pages
hi,
I am a newbie to Linux kernel, so please forgive me if the question is
stupid.
To understand the swapping system, I decided to write a module to scan
every task_struct using for_each_process() checking whether or not the
page pointed by the pte is swapped out. To get the linear address
address of the pte, I did something similar to "pgd_offset <<
PGDIR_SHIFT + pud_offset << PUD_SHIFT + pmd_offset << PMDSHIFT +
pte_offset << PAGE_SHIFT". The offset for each level is simply the
iteration of the walking of the table ranging from 0 to PTRS_PER_(PGD,
PUD, PMD, PTE) depending on the table. However, the result of the
calculation doesn't match anything in the /proc/<pid>/maps.
Is this to be expected? If that's the case, how can I find out what's in
the swap file. Thanks in advance.
YM
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