[v2 PATCH] arm64: mm: show direct mapping use in /proc/meminfo

Catalin Marinas cmarinas at kernel.org
Wed Nov 19 11:12:51 PST 2025


From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:52:10 -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> Since commit a166563e7ec3 ("arm64: mm: support large block mapping when
> rodata=full"), the direct mapping may be split on some machines instead
> keeping static since boot. It makes more sense to show the direct mapping
> use in /proc/meminfo than before.
> This patch will make /proc/meminfo show the direct mapping use like the
> below (4K base page size):
> DirectMap4K:	   94792 kB
> DirectMap64K:	  134208 kB
> DirectMap2M:	 1173504 kB
> DirectMap32M:	 5636096 kB
> DirectMap1G:	529530880 kB
> 
> [...]

It matches Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst, so I'm fine to align
arm64 with it.

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: mm: show direct mapping use in /proc/meminfo
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/1102778cb023

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Catalin




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