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