Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] proc: Add getting pages info of ZONE_DEVICE support
From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Jan 13 2022 - 10:31:25 EST
On Wed 12-01-22 22:35:17, sxwjean@xxxxxx wrote:
> From: Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> When requesting pages info by /proc/kpage*, the pages in ZONE_DEVICE were
> ignored.
>
> The pfn_to_devmap_page() function can help to get page that belongs to
> ZONE_DEVICE.
Why is this needed? Who would consume that information and what for?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs