linux-stable/tools/vm
Naoya Horiguchi 46c77e2bb0 tools/vm/page-types.c: support KPF_SOFTDIRTY bit
Soft dirty bit allows us to track which pages are written since the last
clear_ref (by "echo 4 > /proc/pid/clear_refs".) This is useful for
userspace applications to know their memory footprints.

Note that the kernel exposes this flag via bit[55] of /proc/pid/pagemap,
and the semantics is not a default one (scheduled to be the default in the
near future.) However, it shifts to the new semantics at the first
clear_ref, and the users of soft dirty bit always do it before utilizing
the bit, so that's not a big deal.  Users must avoid relying on the bit in
page-types before the first clear_ref.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-13 12:09:07 +09:00
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.gitignore tools/vm: add .gitignore to ignore built binaries 2013-02-05 20:38:46 +11:00
Makefile tools/vm: Switch to liblk library 2013-03-15 13:06:01 -03:00
page-types.c tools/vm/page-types.c: support KPF_SOFTDIRTY bit 2013-11-13 12:09:07 +09:00
slabinfo.c mm: Fix signal SIGFPE in slabinfo.c. 2012-07-02 23:11:14 +03:00