Differentiating clean and dirty buffer cache pages

[Anupama Chandwani]

Hi,

I need to get stats about what pages in the buffer cache are clean versus dirty.
I traverse the page_tree pointer of the radix tree of each open file
to get all buffer cache pages.

To identify dirty pages, I think of doing the following:
Level 1. Do a gang lookup in radix tree for PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY tag,
Level 2. Check the PTE of buffer cache pages for bit 6(D)

I want to know if checking these two data structures will give me a
complete list of all the dirty pages in the buffer cache?


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Cheers,
Anupama Chandwani
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