* Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:48:10PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > And that does indeed seem to side-step the perf sw pagefault event, but > > that is arguably a perf bug. > > To clarify; mm/memory.c:handle_mm_fault() is where the VM counts its > generic PGFAULT event, but our perf sw event is in the arch fault > handler. > > So they count different but related things.
I think that assymetry was intended: we didn't want to count 'synchronous' pagefaults like get_user_pages() or mlock() bringing in pages, only asynchronous/real ones, or so. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/