[PATCH 7/7] add a new interface to show the memory usage of 1st kernel

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Fri Jul 11 07:39:45 PDT 2014


On 07/11/14 at 10:35am, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:16:04PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > ->$ ./makedumpfile  --mem-usage  /proc/kcore
> > Excluding unnecessary pages        : [100.0 %] |
> > 
> > Page number of memory in different use
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > TYPE			PAGES			EXCLUDABLE	DESCRIPTION
> > pfn_zero		0x0000000000000000	yes		Pages filled with zero
> > pfn_cache		0x000000000002b19f	yes		Cache pages
> > pfn_cache_private	0x0000000000042526	yes		Cache pages + private
> > pfn_user		0x0000000000026bc3	yes		User process data pages
> > pfn_free		0x0000000000133f79	yes		Free pages
> > pfn_hwpoison		0x0000000000000000	yes		Hwpoison pages
> 
> Is there a need to display hwpoison pages? I think they are excluded by
> default. Otherwise reading them might kill makedumpfile process.

You are right, hwpoison pages are excluded by default. But it truly
calculated in makedumpfile. I will change it as non-excludable like
below:

TYPE			PAGES			EXCLUDABLE	DESCRIPTION
pfn_hwpoison		0x0000000000000000	No		Hwpoison pages

> 
> Thanks
> Vivek



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