linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12] mm: report per-page metadata information

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Message-Id: <20240524133624.9d9e3935a0c99700b67cee5f@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 13:36:24 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12] mm: report per-page metadata information

On Fri, 24 May 2024 13:00:06 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:

> This would be a very useful extension to be able to provide observability 
> of per-page metadata overhead and the impact of things like HVO on the 
> overall footprint.  Today, we don't have observability for this memory 
> overhead.
> 
> Andrew, anything else that can be addressed before this is eligible for 
> staging in MM unstable?

I've asked Sourav to prepare a v13, largely to see if we can get a few
more eyeballs onto this.