Re: [PATCH] proc: task_mmu: show page size in /proc/<pid>/numa_maps

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Sat Dec 20 2014 - 11:41:14 EST


On 12/20/2014 05:54 AM, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> This patch introduces 'pagesize' line element to /proc/<pid>/numa_maps
> report file in order to help disambiguating the size of pages that are
> backing memory areas mapped by a task. When the VMA backing page size
> is observed different from kernel's default PAGE_SIZE, the new element
> is printed out to complement report output. This is specially useful to
> help differentiating between HUGE and GIGANTIC page VMAs.

Heh, I completely forgot about this. Thanks for picking it back up.

I sometimes wonder what 'numa_maps' purpose is any if we should have
_some_ kind of policy about what goes in there vs. smaps. numa_maps
seems to be turning in to smaps, minus the \n. :)

But that isn't the case for this patch. The "anon=50 dirty=50 N0=50"
output of numa_maps is wholly *useless* without either this patch or
some other mechanism to find out of hugetbfs memory is present. I think
that needs to make it in to the description.

I'm fine with the code, though. Feel free to add my acked-by.
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