Re: [PATCH 5/5] proc: export more page flags in /proc/kpageflags

[Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:49:21AM +0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 09:09 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (kpageflags-extending.patch)
> > Export 9 page flags in /proc/kpageflags, and 8 more for kernel developers.
> 
> My only concern with this patch is it knows a bit too much about SLUB
> internals (and perhaps not enough about SLOB, which also overloads
> flags). 

Yup. PG_private=PG_slob_free is not masked because SLOB actually does
not set PG_slab at all. I wonder if it's safe to do this change:

        /* SLOB */
-       PG_slob_page = PG_active,
+       PG_slob_page = PG_slab,
        PG_slob_free = PG_private,


In the page-types output:

         flags  page-count       MB  symbolic-flags                     long-symbolic-flags
0x000800000040        7113       27  ______A_________________P____      active,private
0x000000000040          66        0  ______A______________________      active

The above two lines are obviously for SLOB pages.  It indicates lots of
free SLOB pages. So my question is:

- Do you have other means to get the nr_free_slobs info? (I found none in the code)
or
- Will exporting the SL*B overloaded flags going to help?

Thanks,
Fengguang