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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:18:37 +0100 From: Mark Williamson <mwilliamson@...o-software.com> To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>, "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-api@...r.kernel.org" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] pagemap: add mmap-exclusive bit for marking pages mapped only here Reviewed-by: Mark Williamson <mwilliamson@...o-software.com> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 06:37:49PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: >> This patch sets bit 56 in pagemap if this page is mapped only once. >> It allows to detect exclusively used pages without exposing PFN: >> >> present file exclusive state >> 0 0 0 non-present >> 1 1 0 file page mapped somewhere else >> 1 1 1 file page mapped only here >> 1 0 0 anon non-CoWed page (shared with parent/child) >> 1 0 1 anon CoWed page (or never forked) >> >> CoWed pages in (MAP_FILE | MAP_PRIVATE) areas are anon in this context. >> >> MMap-exclusive bit doesn't reflect potential page-sharing via swapcache: >> page could be mapped once but has several swap-ptes which point to it. >> Application could detect that by swap bit in pagemap entry and touch >> that pte via /proc/pid/mem to get real information. >> >> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru> >> Requested-by: Mark Williamson <mwilliamson@...o-software.com> >> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAEVpBa+_RyACkhODZrRvQLs80iy0sqpdrd0AaP_-tgnX3Y9yNQ@mail.gmail.com > > Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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