On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:30:38AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> > Extracts the page table entry walker from the smaps-specific code in
> > fs/proc/task_mmu.c. This will be used later for clearing the reference
> > bits on pages to measure the number of pages accessed over a time period
> > through /proc/pid/smaps.
>
> Clearing reference bits? Ummm... That is a pretty inaccurate measure since
> reclaim can remove pages and revert the reference bits. It can never work
> reliably.
>
> > The new struct pte_walker includes the struct vm_area_struct of the memory
> > to walk over. Iteration begins at the start address and completes at the
> > the end address. A pointer to another data structure may be stored in the
> > private field such as the struct mem_size_stats, which acts as the smaps
> > accumulator. For each page table entry in the VMA, the func function is
> > called with the corresponding struct pte_walker, the pte_t, and its
> > address.
>
> Would it be possible to sync up with the people doing the page table
> interface?
Have a pointer to this?
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