For the /sys/kernel/debug/page_tables/ files, rather than outputing a mostly empty line when a block of memory isn't present just skip the line. This keeps the output shorter and will help with a future change switching to using the generic page walk code as we no longer care about the 'level' that the page table holes are at. Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c index ca270fb00805..e2b53db92c34 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c @@ -304,8 +304,8 @@ static void note_page(struct seq_file *m, struct pg_state *st, /* * Now print the actual finished series */ - if (!st->marker->max_lines || - st->lines < st->marker->max_lines) { + if ((cur & _PAGE_PRESENT) && (!st->marker->max_lines || + st->lines < st->marker->max_lines)) { pt_dump_seq_printf(m, st->to_dmesg, "0x%0*lx-0x%0*lx ", width, st->start_address, @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void note_page(struct seq_file *m, struct pg_state *st, printk_prot(m, st->current_prot, st->level, st->to_dmesg); } - st->lines++; + if (cur & _PAGE_PRESENT) + st->lines++; /* * We print markers for special areas of address space, -- 2.20.1