linux-kernel - [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

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Message-ID: <50A5E4D6.60301@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:01:42 +0100
From:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Jim Paris <jim@...n.com>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (gmail)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

After migrating most of the information in 
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
but am given pause by fact that that text has been in 
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>


diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a1793d6..cf4260f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -778,8 +778,7 @@ AnonHugePages:   49152 kB
               other things, it is where everything from the Slab is
               allocated.  Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem.
    SwapTotal: total amount of swap space available
-    SwapFree: Memory which has been evicted from RAM, and is temporarily
-              on the disk
+    SwapFree: Amount of swap space that is currently unused.
        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
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