arm L_PTE_XXX entry addition for Debugging purpose

Dhyan linuxdhyan at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 02:17:37 EDT 2012


Dear  mulyadi santosa,

I think you are mentioning the about  PG_dirty flag.But in my case i want
to clear the written flag of the user process from my kernel thread after
each dump.

So that next time when kernel thread runs it will dump only the pages
written after last dump.

--
Thanks
Dhyan



On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi...
>
> Sorry for crossing in...
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Dhyan <linuxdhyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry to ask,but is there any other good way to find the written pages
> of a
> > user process?
>
> by "written", you mean "dirty" pages?
>
> if yes, IIRC there's a flag that marks so....but that is for x86 and I
> forgot the name...
>
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
> blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
> training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com
>
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