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Why mincore()returns different value of stat ?

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mapped file

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Interior of a processUser-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area mmap() 1MB mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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Major page fault User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped areatouch page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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Major page fault User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped areatouch page 1 page 2 page 2 page 3 Read page from disk page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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Major page fault User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area Associate physical memory with virtual memorytouch page 1 page 2 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area page 1 page 2touch page 2 page 3 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area page 1 page 2 page 2 page 3 page 3 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 5 page 1 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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swap out (Just image , not actual)

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User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area page 1 page 2 page 2 page 3 page 3 page 6touch page 4 page 7 page 5 page 1 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area page 1 page 2 page 2 page 3 page 3 page 6touch page 4 page 7 page 5 page 1 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area page 1 page 2 page 3 page 3 page 6touch page 4 page 7 page 5 page 1 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area page 1 page 5 page 2 page 3 page 3 page 6touch page 4 page 7 page 5 page 1 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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restart the process

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Old processUser-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area page 1 page 5 page 2 page 3 page 3 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 5 page 1 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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Kill processNothing Kernel-land physical mem page 5 page 3 page 6 page 7 page 1 page 4 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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New processUser-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem page 5 page 3 page 6 page 7 page 1 page 4 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area page 1 page 5 page 2 page 3 page 3 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 5 page 1 page 6 page 4 page 7 mmap() 1MB page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area page 1 Actually, some pages are page 5 page 3 page 2 page 3 on memory page 6 page 4 page 7 page 5 page 1 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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Minor page fault User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical mem mapped area ONLY associate physical page 1 memory with virtual memory page 5 page 2 page 3 page 3 page 6touch page 4 page 7 page 5 page 1 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 256 mapped file page 1 used by page 2 page 3 FS others page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 256

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names & seeing

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User-land Kernel-land virtual mem physical memtop mapped area/proc/<pid>/smaps/proc/<pid>/statm page 1 PTE VMA page 5 : page 2 page 3 page 3 page 6 page 4 page 7 page 5 page 1 page 6 page 4 page 7VIRT(virtual) page 256RES(resident) mapped file page 1 used bySHR page 2 FS others page 3 page 4 page 5mincore() page 6 page 7 page 256

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Kernel code

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fs/proc/task_mmu.c#L447 mm/mincore.c#L108static void smaps_pte_entry(pte_t ptent, unsigned long addr, static void mincore_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long ptent_size, struct mm_walk pmd_t *pmd,*walk) unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,{ unsigned char *vec) struct mem_size_stats *mss = walk->private; { struct vm_area_struct *vma = mss->vma; unsigned long next; pgoff_t pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, addr); spinlock_t *ptl; struct page *page = NULL; pte_t *ptep; int mapcount; ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl); if (pte_present(ptent)) { do { page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, ptent); pte_t pte = *ptep; } else if (is_swap_pte(ptent)) { pgoff_t pgoff; swp_entry_t swpent = pte_to_swp_entry(ptent); next = addr + PAGE_SIZE; if (!non_swap_entry(swpent)) if (pte_none(pte)) mss->swap += ptent_size; mincore_unmapped_range(vma, addr, next, vec); else if (is_migration_entry(swpent)) else if (pte_present(pte)) page = migration_entry_to_page(swpent); *vec = 1; } else if (pte_file(ptent)) { else if (pte_file(pte)) { if (pte_to_pgoff(ptent) != pgoff) pgoff = pte_to_pgoff(pte); mss->nonlinear += ptent_size; *vec = mincore_page(vma->vm_file->f_mapping, pgoff); } } else { /* pte is a swap entry */ swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte); if (!page) : return; : if (PageAnon(page)) mss->anonymous += ptent_size; if (page->index != pgoff) mss->nonlinear += ptent_size; mss->resident += ptent_size; : :