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    proc: export idle flag via kpageflags · f074a8f4
    Vladimir Davydov authored
    As noted by Minchan, a benefit of reading idle flag from /proc/kpageflags
    is that one can easily filter dirty and/or unevictable pages while
    estimating the size of unused memory.
    
    Note that idle flag read from /proc/kpageflags may be stale in case the
    page was accessed via a PTE, because it would be too costly to iterate
    over all page mappings on each /proc/kpageflags read to provide an
    up-to-date value.  To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read
    /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap first.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
    Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
    Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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