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SubjectRe: [PATCH V4 6/6] proc: show MADV_FREE pages info in smaps
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:50:44AM -0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> show MADV_FREE pages info of each vma in smaps. The interface is for
> diganose or monitoring purpose, userspace could use it to understand
> what happens in the application. Since userspace could dirty MADV_FREE
> pages without notice from kernel, this interface is the only place we
> can get accurate accounting info about MADV_FREE pages.
>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

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