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pagemap: add mmap-exclusive bit for marking pages mapped only here
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Tue, 8 Sep 2015 22:00:10 +0000 (15:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 8 Sep 2015 22:35:28 +0000 (15:35 -0700)
commitf2aed6dc4edba5f7e60e37fd1ba64f8c1dd506cc
tree6a1565ab551fcf8c04b4f38c37b085bbf0829da5
parente358f6bec73b6187c997386ecfee805aa98fc9d9
pagemap: add mmap-exclusive bit for marking pages mapped only here

This patch sets bit 56 in pagemap if this page is mapped only once.  It
allows to detect exclusively used pages without exposing PFN:

present file exclusive state
0       0    0         non-present
1       1    0         file page mapped somewhere else
1       1    1         file page mapped only here
1       0    0         anon non-CoWed page (shared with parent/child)
1       0    1         anon CoWed page (or never forked)

CoWed pages in (MAP_FILE | MAP_PRIVATE) areas are anon in this context.

MMap-exclusive bit doesn't reflect potential page-sharing via swapcache:
page could be mapped once but has several swap-ptes which point to it.
Application could detect that by swap bit in pagemap entry and touch that
pte via /proc/pid/mem to get real information.

See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAEVpBa+_RyACkhODZrRvQLs80iy0sqpdrd0AaP_-tgnX3Y9yNQ@mail.gmail.com

Requested by Mark Williamson.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Mark Williamson <mwilliamson@undo-software.com>
Tested-by: Mark Williamson <mwilliamson@undo-software.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
fs/proc/task_mmu.c
tools/vm/page-types.c