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| author | Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> | 2015-09-08 15:00:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -0700 |
| commit | 77bb499bb60f4b79cca7d139c8041662860fcf87 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a1565ab551fcf8c04b4f38c37b085bbf0829da5 /Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | |
| parent | 1c90308e7a77af6742a97d1021cca923b23b7f0d (diff) | |
pagemap: add mmap-exclusive bit for marking pages mapped only here
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.
See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAEVpBa+_RyACkhODZrRvQLs80iy0sqpdrd0AaP_-tgnX3Y9yNQ@mail.gmail.com
Requested by Mark Williamson.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Mark Williamson <mwilliamson@undo-software.com>
Tested-by: Mark Williamson <mwilliamson@undo-software.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt index 6bfbc172cdb9..56faec0f73f7 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ There are three components to pagemap: * Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped * Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt) - * Bits 56-60 zero + * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped + * Bits 57-60 zero * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon * Bit 62 page swapped * Bit 63 page present |