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>> There is currently /proc/<pid>/smaps that prints the detailed >> information about the usage of physical pages but that is a very >> expensive operation as it traverses all the PTs (for some one who is >> just interested in getting that data for each vma). > > Yet more cacheline footprint in the page fault and unmap paths... > > What is this used for and why do we want it? Could you do some > smaps-like interface that can work on ranges of memory, and > continue to walk pagetables instead? > BTW, what is smaps used for (who uses it), anyway? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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