Skip to content
Commit 7f1d23e6 authored by Christian Hansen's avatar Christian Hansen Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

tools/vm/page-types.c: include shared map counts

Add a new flag that will read kpagecount for each PFN and print out the
number of times the page is mapped along with the flags in the listing
view.

This information is useful in understanding and optimizing memory usage.
Identifying pages which are not shared allows us to focus on adjusting
the memory layout or access patterns for the sole owning process.
Knowing the number of processes that share a page tells us how many
other times we must make the same adjustments or how many processes to
potentially disable.

Truncated sample output:

  voffset map-cnt offset  len     flags
  561a3591e       1       15fe8   1       ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________
  561a3591f       1       2b103   1       ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________
  561a36ca4       1       2cc78   1       ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________
  7f588bb4e       14      2273c   1       __RU_lA____M______________________________

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[chansen3@cisco.com: add documentation, tweak whitespace]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180705181204.5529-1-chansen3@cisco.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612153205.12879-1-chansen3@cisco.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent fadae295
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment