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| author | Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> | 2015-09-09 15:35:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -0700 |
| commit | f074a8f49eb87cde95ac9d040ad5e7ea4f029738 (patch) | |
| tree | c78d0a5386ee6d9db9de32c733df404e783088d5 /include | |
| parent | 33c3fc71c8cfa3cc3a98beaa901c069c177dc295 (diff) | |
proc: export idle flag via kpageflags
As noted by Minchan, a benefit of reading idle flag from /proc/kpageflags
is that one can easily filter dirty and/or unevictable pages while
estimating the size of unused memory.
Note that idle flag read from /proc/kpageflags may be stale in case the
page was accessed via a PTE, because it would be too costly to iterate
over all page mappings on each /proc/kpageflags read to provide an
up-to-date value. To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap first.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/kernel-page-flags.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kernel-page-flags.h b/include/uapi/linux/kernel-page-flags.h index a6c4962e5d46..5da5f8751ce7 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/kernel-page-flags.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kernel-page-flags.h @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #define KPF_THP 22 #define KPF_BALLOON 23 #define KPF_ZERO_PAGE 24 +#define KPF_IDLE 25 #endif /* _UAPILINUX_KERNEL_PAGE_FLAGS_H */ |