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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-17 16:49:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-17 16:49:31 -0700
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc things - a few Y2038 fixes - ntfs fixes - arch/sh tweaks - ocfs2 updates - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (111 commits) mm/hmm.c: remove unused variables align_start and align_end fs/userfaultfd.c: remove redundant pointer uwq mm, vmacache: hash addresses based on pmd mm/list_lru: introduce list_lru_shrink_walk_irq() mm/list_lru.c: pass struct list_lru_node* as an argument to __list_lru_walk_one() mm/list_lru.c: move locking from __list_lru_walk_one() to its caller mm/list_lru.c: use list_lru_walk_one() in list_lru_walk_node() mm, swap: make CONFIG_THP_SWAP depend on CONFIG_SWAP mm/sparse: delete old sparse_init and enable new one mm/sparse: add new sparse_init_nid() and sparse_init() mm/sparse: move buffer init/fini to the common place mm/sparse: use the new sparse buffer functions in non-vmemmap mm/sparse: abstract sparse buffer allocations mm/hugetlb.c: don't zero 1GiB bootmem pages mm, page_alloc: double zone's batchsize mm/oom_kill.c: document oom_lock mm/hugetlb: remove gigantic page support for HIGHMEM mm, oom: remove sleep from under oom_lock kernel/dma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from dma_alloc_from_contiguous() mm/cma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from cma_alloc() ...
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@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ workload one should:
are not reclaimable, he or she can filter them out using
``/proc/kpageflags``.
+The page-types tool in the tools/vm directory can be used to assist in this.
+If the tool is run initially with the appropriate option, it will mark all the
+queried pages as idle. Subsequent runs of the tool can then show which pages have
+their idle flag cleared in the interim.
+
See :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst <pagemap>` for more
information about ``/proc/pid/pagemap``, ``/proc/kpageflags``, and
``/proc/kpagecgroup``.