On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2014 22:19:55 -0400 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > A much nicer interface would be for us to (finally!) implement
>> > fincore(), perhaps with an enhanced per-present-page payload which
>> > presents the info which you need (although we don't actually know what
>> > that info is!).
>>
>> page/pfn of each page slot and its page cache tag as shown in patch 4/4.
>>
>> > This would require open() - it appears to be a requirement that the
>> > caller not open the file, but no reason was given for this.
>> >
>> > Requiring open() would address some of the obvious security concerns,
>> > but it will still be possible for processes to poke around and get some
>> > understanding of the behaviour of other processes. Careful attention
>> > should be paid to this aspect of any such patchset.
>>
>> Sorry if I missed your point, but this interface defines fixed mapping
>> between file position in /proc/kpagecache and in-file page offset of
>> the target file. So we do not need to use seq_file mechanism, that's
>> why open() is not defined and default one is used.
>> The same thing is true for /proc/{kpagecount,kpageflags}, from which
>> I copied/pasted some basic code.
>
> I think you did miss my point ;) Please do a web search for fincore -
> it's a syscall similar to mincore(), only it queries pagecache:
> fincore(int fd, loff_t offset, ...). In its simplest form it queries
> just for present/absent, but we could increase the query payload to
> incorporate additional per-page info.
>
> It would take a lot of thought and discussion to nail down the
> fincore() interface (we've already tried a couple of times). But
> unfortunately, fincore() is probably going to be implemented one day
> and it will (or at least could) make /proc/kpagecache obsolete.
>
It seems fincore() also might obsolete /proc/kpageflags and /proc/pid/pagemap.
because it might be implemented for /dev/mem and /proc/pid/mem as well
as for normal files.
Something like this:
int fincore(int fd, u64 *kpf, u64 *pfn, size_t length, off_t offset)
It reports PFN and page-flags in KPF_* notation. PFN array is optional.
KFP_NOPAGE reports hole, otherwise this is present page, but probably
not-uptodate.
KFP_SOFTDIRTY already here.
Also we need new flag KFP_SWAPENTRY for vm/shmem to report swap-entry
instead of pfn.
Probably this is redundant, we cannot report pfn and swap-entry
togerher if page present and in swap-cache.
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