Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm,debug: VM framework to capture memory referencepattern

[Ankita Garg]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 07:33:24PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:52:34 +0530, Ankita Garg said:
> 
> > by default) and scans through all pages of the specified tasks (including
> > children/threads) running in the system. If the hardware reference bit in the
> > page table is set, then the page is marked as accessed over the last sampling
> > interval and the reference bit is cleared.
> 
> Does that cause any issues for other code in the mm subsystem that was
> expecting to use the reference bit for something useful? (Similarly, if other
> code in mm turns that bit *off* for its own reasons, does your code still
> produce useful results?)

At this point, the VM code does not use the reference bit for any
decision making, not even in the LRU. However, if the reference bit is
used later on, then this change will interfere with that logic.

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Regards,
Ankita Garg (ankita@xxxxxxxxxx)
Linux Technology Center
IBM India Systems & Technology Labs,
Bangalore, India
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