Re: [RFC] mm: Distinguish between mlocked and pinned pages
From: Christoph Lameter <hidden>
Date: 2011-08-18 23:51:47
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:
Sounds reasonable. But how do we prevent future confusion? We should carefully define these terms in an obvious place, please.
Ok.
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--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm_types.h 2011-08-10 14:08:42.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm_types.h 2011-08-10 14:09:02.000000000 -0500@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ struct mm_struct { unsigned long hiwater_rss; /* High-watermark of RSS usage */ unsigned long hiwater_vm; /* High-water virtual memory usage */ - unsigned long total_vm, locked_vm, shared_vm, exec_vm; + unsigned long total_vm, locked_vm, pinned_vm, shared_vm, exec_vm; unsigned long stack_vm, reserved_vm, def_flags, nr_ptes; unsigned long start_code, end_code, start_data, end_data; unsigned long start_brk, brk, start_stack;This is an obvious place. Could I ask that you split all these up into one-definition-per-line and we can start in on properly documenting each field?
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