Re: [PATCH 12/13] maps#2: Add /proc/pid/pagemap interface

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On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:55:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:03:13 -0500 Matt Mackall <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Add /proc/pid/pagemap interface
> > 
> > This interface provides a mapping for each page in an address space to
> > its physical page frame number, allowing precise determination of what
> > pages are mapped and what pages are shared between processes.
> 
> Could we please have a simple read-proc-pid-pagemap.c placed under
> Documentation/ somewhere?  Also some sample output for the changelog
> so we can see what all this does.

Working on that. The userspace portion of my tools are very rough at
the moment. And in Python.
 
> Also for kpagemap, please.
> 
> Should /proc/pid/pagemap and kpagemap be versioned?

They've both got a variable-sized header, so we can add things there. 

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