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authorChanghee Han <ch0.han@lge.com>2020-06-03 16:03:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-03 20:09:49 -0700
commit5b94ce2fcae2542c4d5d49176fa23eea638dc7b6 (patch)
tree5a2aa1c9802e1e1eb8cd49fb8f5a2babb53ac75c /Documentation/vm
parent21e330fc632d6a288f73de48045b782cc51d501a (diff)
downloadlinux-5b94ce2fcae2542c4d5d49176fa23eea638dc7b6.tar.gz
tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line
To see a sorted result from page_owner, there must be a tiresome
preprocessing step before running page_owner_sort.  This patch simply
filters out lines which start with "PFN" while reading the page owner
report.

Signed-off-by: Changhee Han <ch0.han@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200429052940.16968-1-ch0.han@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
index 0ed5ab8c7ab4..079f3f8c4784 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ Usage
 4) Analyze information from page owner::
 
 	cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner > page_owner_full.txt
-	grep -v ^PFN page_owner_full.txt > page_owner.txt
-	./page_owner_sort page_owner.txt sorted_page_owner.txt
+	./page_owner_sort page_owner_full.txt sorted_page_owner.txt
 
    See the result about who allocated each page
    in the ``sorted_page_owner.txt``.