tools/vm/page-types.c: include shared map counts
authorChristian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com>
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 22:44:59 +0000 (15:44 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:20:28 +0000 (16:20 -0700)
commit7f1d23e607185e07e5df2a806a989c24627aef41
tree3b82f7fbb3039e1072b0b6e212cedfbcacafca92
parentfadae2953072e9005c5f1d64e1049edb043494dc
tools/vm/page-types.c: include shared map counts

Add a new flag that will read kpagecount for each PFN and print out the
number of times the page is mapped along with the flags in the listing
view.

This information is useful in understanding and optimizing memory usage.
Identifying pages which are not shared allows us to focus on adjusting
the memory layout or access patterns for the sole owning process.
Knowing the number of processes that share a page tells us how many
other times we must make the same adjustments or how many processes to
potentially disable.

Truncated sample output:

  voffset map-cnt offset  len     flags
  561a3591e       1       15fe8   1       ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________
  561a3591f       1       2b103   1       ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________
  561a36ca4       1       2cc78   1       ___U_lA____Ma_b___________________________
  7f588bb4e       14      2273c   1       __RU_lA____M______________________________

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[chansen3@cisco.com: add documentation, tweak whitespace]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180705181204.5529-1-chansen3@cisco.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612153205.12879-1-chansen3@cisco.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
tools/vm/page-types.c