Re: [PATCH v2] After swapout/swapin private dirty mappings are reported clean in smaps

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On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 September 2010 19:44:17 Richard Guenther wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Well, may be /proc/pid/pagemap + /proc/kpageflags is enough for this! One can 
> get the pageflags using these interfaces. See Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt for 
> the explanation on how to do it. There is also a sample program that prints 
> page flags using this interface in Documentation/vm/page-types.c.
> 
> It is bad that /proc/pid/pagemap is never mentioned in 
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. I will send a patch to rectify this.

Looks like /proc/kpageflags is root-only, so not a solution for gdb.

Richard.

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