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

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 19:35:24 +0530
From:   Prashant Dhamdhere <pdhamdhe@...hat.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: proc.txt: Adding 'HardwareCorrupted'
 parameter and description.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:46 AM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:05:22 +0530
> Prashant Dhamdhere <pdhamdhe@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>> 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..b2fa7e7c4300 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
>
> This patch, too, was corrupted by your mailer.  Please resubmit it after
> fixing the issue (and with a changelog, please).
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon


Hi Jon,

I have resubmitted this patch with a changelog, please review and share feedback
so that I will be able to submit other patches.

--
Prashant

>
>>         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 identified 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
>