proc: export idle flag via kpageflags
authorVladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Wed, 9 Sep 2015 22:35:48 +0000 (15:35 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:29:01 +0000 (13:29 -0700)
commitf074a8f49eb87cde95ac9d040ad5e7ea4f029738
treec78d0a5386ee6d9db9de32c733df404e783088d5
parent33c3fc71c8cfa3cc3a98beaa901c069c177dc295
proc: export idle flag via kpageflags

As noted by Minchan, a benefit of reading idle flag from /proc/kpageflags
is that one can easily filter dirty and/or unevictable pages while
estimating the size of unused memory.

Note that idle flag read from /proc/kpageflags may be stale in case the
page was accessed via a PTE, because it would be too costly to iterate
over all page mappings on each /proc/kpageflags read to provide an
up-to-date value.  To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap first.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
fs/proc/page.c
include/uapi/linux/kernel-page-flags.h