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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:46:55 +0200
From: Michał Mirosław <emmir@...gle.com>
To: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>
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Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v26 2/5] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL to get and
optionally clear info about PTEs
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 11:37, Muhammad Usama Anjum
<usama.anjum@...labora.com> wrote:
[...]
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
[...]
> +/*
> + * struct pm_scan_arg - Pagemap ioctl argument
> + * @size: Size of the structure
> + * @flags: Flags for the IOCTL
> + * @start: Starting address of the region
> + * @end: Ending address of the region
> + * @walk_end: Ending address of the visited memory is returned
> + * (This helps if entire range hasn't been visited)
"Address where the scan stopped (written by kernel). walk_end == end
informs that the scan completed."
(To make the userspace life easier, we can copy `end` (only) in case
of full scan completion, so that the tag is retained.)
> + * @vec: Address of page_region struct array for output
> + * @vec_len: Length of the page_region struct array
> + * @max_pages: Optional limit for number of returned pages (0 = disabled)
> + * @category_inverted: PAGE_IS_* categories which values match if 0 instead of 1
> + * @category_mask: Skip pages for which any category doesn't match
> + * @category_anyof_mask: Skip pages for which no category matches
> + * @return_mask: PAGE_IS_* categories that are to be reported in `page_region`s returned
> + */
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