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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt index 6bfbc172c..0e1e55588 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pagemap is a new (as of 2.6.25) set of interfaces in the kernel that allow userspace programs to examine the page tables and related information by reading files in /proc. -There are three components to pagemap: +There are four components to pagemap: * /proc/pid/pagemap. This file lets a userspace process find out which physical frame each virtual page is mapped to. It contains one 64-bit @@ -16,11 +16,17 @@ There are three components to pagemap: * Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped * Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt) - * Bits 56-60 zero - * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon + * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2) + * Bits 57-60 zero + * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5) * Bit 62 page swapped * Bit 63 page present + Since Linux 4.0 only users with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability can get PFNs. + In 4.0 and 4.1 opens by unprivileged fail with -EPERM. Starting from + 4.2 the PFN field is zeroed if the user does not have CAP_SYS_ADMIN. + Reason: information about PFNs helps in exploiting Rowhammer vulnerability. + If the page is not present but in swap, then the PFN contains an encoding of the swap file number and the page's offset into the swap. Unmapped pages return a null PFN. This allows determining @@ -64,6 +70,11 @@ There are three components to pagemap: 22. THP 23. BALLOON 24. ZERO_PAGE + 25. IDLE + + * /proc/kpagecgroup. This file contains a 64-bit inode number of the + memory cgroup each page is charged to, indexed by PFN. Only available when + CONFIG_MEMCG is set. Short descriptions to the page flags: @@ -110,6 +121,12 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags: 24. ZERO_PAGE zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page +25. IDLE + page has not been accessed since it was marked idle (see + Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt). 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. + [IO related page flags] 1. ERROR IO error occurred 3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data @@ -159,3 +176,8 @@ Other notes: Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you sought an odd number of bytes into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes. + +Before Linux 3.11 pagemap bits 55-60 were used for "page-shift" (which is +always 12 at most architectures). Since Linux 3.11 their meaning changes +after first clear of soft-dirty bits. Since Linux 4.2 they are used for +flags unconditionally. |