linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] Documentation: proc.txt: Adding 'HardwareCorrupted' field and description.

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Date:   Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:58:06 +0530
From:   Prashant Dhamdhere <pdhamdhe@...hat.com>
To:     corbet@....net
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        pdhamdhe@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation: proc.txt: Adding 'HardwareCorrupted' field and description.

This patch talks about the 'HardwareCorrupted' field currently missing from
the 'meminfo' section of 'proc.txt' file. It also includes short description
of 'HardwareCorrupted' field.

Signed-off-by: Prashant Dhamdhere <pdhamdhe@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 520f6a84cf50..1605acbb23b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -870,6 +870,7 @@ Committed_AS:   100056 kB
 VmallocTotal:   112216 kB
 VmallocUsed:       428 kB
 VmallocChunk:   111088 kB
+HardwareCorrupted:   0 kB
 AnonHugePages:   49152 kB
 ShmemHugePages:      0 kB
 ShmemPmdMapped:      0 kB
@@ -915,6 +916,8 @@ MemAvailable: An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new
        Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk
    Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk
    AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables
+HardwareCorrupted: The amount of RAM/memory in KB, the kernel identifies as
+	      corrupted.
 AnonHugePages: Non-file backed huge pages mapped into userspace page tables
       Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries
        Shmem: Total memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs
-- 
2.17.1