Re: [PATCH 1/2] Report the pagesize backing a VMA in/proc/pid/smaps

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 12:06:57 EST


On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 16:41 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> I admit it's ppc64-specific. In the latest patch series, I made this a
> separate patch so that it could be readily dropped again for this reason.
> Maybe an alternative would be to display MMUPageSize *only* where it differs
> from KernelPageSize. Would that be better or similarly confusing?

I would also think that any arch implementing fallback from large to
small pages in a hugetlbfs area (Adam needs to post his patches :) would
also use this.

-- Dave

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