* Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx> [2010-09-15 16:14:17]: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Balbir Singh wrote: > > > * Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx> [2010-09-15 12:01:11]: > > > > > How? Current smaps information without this patch provides incorrect > > > information. Just because a private dirty page became part of swap cache, it > > > shown as clean and backed by a file. If it is shown as clean and backed by > > > swap then it is fine. > > > > > > > How is GDB using this information? > > GDB counts the number of dirty and swapped pages in a private mapping and > based on that decides whether it needs to dump it to a core file or not. > If there are no dirty or swapped pages gdb assumes it can reconstruct > the mapping from the original backing file. This way for example > shared libraries do not end up in the core file. > Thanks for clarifying -- Three Cheers, Balbir -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>