Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 4 authors, 2011-02-23

Re: [PATCH 4/5] teach smaps_pte_range() about THP pmds

From: Eric B Munson <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-23 15:31:12
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Dave Hansen wrote:
v2 - used mm->page_table_lock to fix up locking bug that
	Mel pointed out.  Also remove Acks since things
	got changed significantly.

This adds code to explicitly detect  and handle
pmd_trans_huge() pmds.  It then passes HPAGE_SIZE units
in to the smap_pte_entry() function instead of PAGE_SIZE.

This means that using /proc/$pid/smaps now will no longer
cause THPs to be broken down in to small pages.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <redacted>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Eric B Munson [off-list ref]

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