Re: [PATCH v3 03/14] mm: Mark pages in use for page tables

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On 04/18/2018 08:49 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Define a new PageTable bit in the page_type and use it to mark pages in
> use as page tables.  This can be helpful when debugging crashdumps or

Yep, once I've added such flag for debugging myself :)

> analysing memory fragmentation.  Add a KPF flag to report these pages
> to userspace and update page-types.c to interpret that flag.
> 
> Note that only pages currently accounted as NR_PAGETABLES are tracked
> as PageTable; this does not include pgd/p4d/pud/pmd pages.  Those will
> be the subject of a later patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>




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