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* [merged] pagemap-document-9-more-exported-page-flags.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2009-06-17 18:34 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2009-06-17 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: fengguang.wu, adobriyan, andi, kosaki.motohiro, mingo, mpm, mm-commits


The patch titled
     pagemap: document 9 more exported page flags
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     pagemap-document-9-more-exported-page-flags.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: pagemap: document 9 more exported page flags
From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

Also add short descriptions for all of the 20 exported page flags.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt |   62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)

diff -puN Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt~pagemap-document-9-more-exported-page-flags Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt~pagemap-document-9-more-exported-page-flags
+++ a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,68 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
      8. WRITEBACK
      9. RECLAIM
     10. BUDDY
+    11. MMAP
+    12. ANON
+    13. SWAPCACHE
+    14. SWAPBACKED
+    15. COMPOUND_HEAD
+    16. COMPOUND_TAIL
+    16. HUGE
+    18. UNEVICTABLE
+    20. NOPAGE
+
+Short descriptions to the page flags:
+
+ 0. LOCKED
+    page is being locked for exclusive access, eg. by undergoing read/write IO
+
+ 7. SLAB
+    page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator
+    When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head
+    page; SLOB will not flag it at all.
+
+10. BUDDY
+    a free memory block managed by the buddy system allocator
+    The buddy system organizes free memory in blocks of various orders.
+    An order N block has 2^N physically contiguous pages, with the BUDDY flag
+    set for and _only_ for the first page.
+
+15. COMPOUND_HEAD
+16. COMPOUND_TAIL
+    A compound page with order N consists of 2^N physically contiguous pages.
+    A compound page with order 2 takes the form of "HTTT", where H donates its
+    head page and T donates its tail page(s).  The major consumers of compound
+    pages are hugeTLB pages (Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt), the SLUB etc.
+    memory allocators and various device drivers. However in this interface,
+    only huge/giga pages are made visible to end users.
+17. HUGE
+    this is an integral part of a HugeTLB page
+
+20. NOPAGE
+    no page frame exists at the requested address
+
+    [IO related page flags]
+ 1. ERROR     IO error occurred
+ 3. UPTODATE  page has up-to-date data
+              ie. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision >= on-disk one)
+ 4. DIRTY     page has been written to, hence contains new data
+              ie. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision >  on-disk one)
+ 8. WRITEBACK page is being synced to disk
+
+    [LRU related page flags]
+ 5. LRU         page is in one of the LRU lists
+ 6. ACTIVE      page is in the active LRU list
+18. UNEVICTABLE page is in the unevictable (non-)LRU list
+                It is somehow pinned and not a candidate for LRU page reclaims,
+		eg. ramfs pages, shmctl(SHM_LOCK) and mlock() memory segments
+ 2. REFERENCED  page has been referenced since last LRU list enqueue/requeue
+ 9. RECLAIM     page will be reclaimed soon after its pageout IO completed
+11. MMAP        a memory mapped page
+12. ANON        a memory mapped page that is not part of a file
+13. SWAPCACHE   page is mapped to swap space, ie. has an associated swap entry
+14. SWAPBACKED  page is backed by swap/RAM
+
+The page-types tool in this directory can be used to query the above flags.
 
 Using pagemap to do something useful:
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from fengguang.wu@intel.com are

origin.patch
documentation-vm-makefile-dont-try-to-build-slqbinfo.patch
linux-next.patch
readahead-add-blk_run_backing_dev.patch
readahead-add-blk_run_backing_dev-fix.patch
readahead-add-blk_run_backing_dev-fix-fix-2.patch


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