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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Split page_type out from mapcount
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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On 02/28/2018 02:31 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
> 
> I want to use the _mapcount field to record what a page is in use as.
> This can help with debugging and we can also expose that information to
> userspace through /proc/kpageflags to help diagnose memory usage (not
> included as part of this patch set).

Hey,

Will there be updates to tools/vm/ also, or are these a different set of
(many) flags?

thanks,
-- 
~Randy