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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst index 340a5aee9b80..6e2e416af783 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ There are four components to pagemap: * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst <soft_dirty>`) * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2) - * Bits 57-60 zero + * Bit 57 pte is uffd-wp write-protected (since 5.13) (see + :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst <userfaultfd>`) + * Bits 58-60 zero * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5) * Bit 62 page swapped * Bit 63 page present @@ -88,13 +90,14 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags ==================================== 0 - LOCKED - page is being locked for exclusive access, e.g. by undergoing read/write IO + The page is being locked for exclusive access, e.g. by undergoing read/write + IO. 7 - SLAB - page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator + The 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 + 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. @@ -110,65 +113,65 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags 16 - COMPOUND_TAIL A compound page tail (see description above). 17 - HUGE - this is an integral part of a HugeTLB page + This is an integral part of a HugeTLB page. 19 - HWPOISON - hardware detected memory corruption on this page: don't touch the data! + Hardware detected memory corruption on this page: don't touch the data! 20 - NOPAGE - no page frame exists at the requested address + No page frame exists at the requested address. 21 - KSM - identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes + Identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes. 22 - THP - contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages + Contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages. 23 - OFFLINE - page is logically offline + The page is logically offline. 24 - ZERO_PAGE - zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page + Zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page. 25 - IDLE - page has not been accessed since it was marked idle (see + The page has not been accessed since it was marked idle (see :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst <idle_page_tracking>`). Note that this flag may be stale in case the page was accessed via a PTE. To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read ``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap`` first. 26 - PGTABLE - page is in use as a page table + The page is in use as a page table. IO related page flags --------------------- 1 - ERROR - IO error occurred + IO error occurred. 3 - UPTODATE - page has up-to-date data + The 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 + The page has been written to, hence contains new data. i.e. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision > on-disk one) 8 - WRITEBACK - page is being synced to disk + The page is being synced to disk. LRU related page flags ---------------------- 5 - LRU - page is in one of the LRU lists + The page is in one of the LRU lists. 6 - ACTIVE - page is in the active LRU list + The page is in the active LRU list. 18 - UNEVICTABLE - page is in the unevictable (non-)LRU list It is somehow pinned and + The page is in the unevictable (non-)LRU list It is somehow pinned and not a candidate for LRU page reclaims, e.g. ramfs pages, - shmctl(SHM_LOCK) and mlock() memory segments + shmctl(SHM_LOCK) and mlock() memory segments. 2 - REFERENCED - page has been referenced since last LRU list enqueue/requeue + The page has been referenced since last LRU list enqueue/requeue. 9 - RECLAIM - page will be reclaimed soon after its pageout IO completed + The page will be reclaimed soon after its pageout IO completed. 11 - MMAP - a memory mapped page + A memory mapped page. 12 - ANON - a memory mapped page that is not part of a file + A memory mapped page that is not part of a file. 13 - SWAPCACHE - page is mapped to swap space, i.e. has an associated swap entry + The page is mapped to swap space, i.e. has an associated swap entry. 14 - SWAPBACKED - page is backed by swap/RAM + The page is backed by swap/RAM. The page-types tool in the tools/vm directory can be used to query the above flags. @@ -194,6 +197,28 @@ you can go through every map in the process, find the PFNs, look those up in kpagecount, and tally up the number of pages that are only referenced once. +Exceptions for Shared Memory +============================ + +Page table entries for shared pages are cleared when the pages are zapped or +swapped out. This makes swapped out pages indistinguishable from never-allocated +ones. + +In kernel space, the swap location can still be retrieved from the page cache. +However, values stored only on the normal PTE get lost irretrievably when the +page is swapped out (i.e. SOFT_DIRTY). + +In user space, whether the page is present, swapped or none can be deduced with +the help of lseek and/or mincore system calls. + +lseek() can differentiate between accessed pages (present or swapped out) and +holes (none/non-allocated) by specifying the SEEK_DATA flag on the file where +the pages are backed. For anonymous shared pages, the file can be found in +``/proc/pid/map_files/``. + +mincore() can differentiate between pages in memory (present, including swap +cache) and out of memory (swapped out or none/non-allocated). + Other notes =========== |