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@@ -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
@@ -70,6 +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:
@@ -116,6 +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