page-types: exit early when invoked with -d|--describe
authorAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:57:54 +0000 (17:57 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:53:11 +0000 (08:53 -0800)
commitbb86a7338b7a864c03e1736a8d370b10254b0300
treed671c0725c2332df2a2180b64a7b5957aef7b59b
parent9fdcd886ab407dbe3f854579417e6b036222a468
page-types: exit early when invoked with -d|--describe

On a system with large amount of memory (256GB), invoking page-types can
take quite a long time, which is unreasonable considering the user only
wants a description of the flags:

# time ./page-types -d 0x10
0x0000000000000010 ____D_____________________________ dirty

real 0m34.285s
user 0m1.966s
sys 0m32.313s

This is because we still walk the entire address range.

Exiting early seems like a reasonble solution:

# time ./page-types -d 0x10
0x0000000000000010 ____D_____________________________ dirty

real 0m0.007s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.005s

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/vm/page-types.c