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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:35:48 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: linux-mm@...ck.org, Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations
The documentation for /proc/pid/status does not mention that the value of
VmSwap counts only swapped out anonymous private pages and not shmem. This is
not obvious, so document this limitation.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a99b208..7ef50cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1)
VmPTE size of page table entries
VmPMD size of second level page tables
VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents)
+ by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not
+ included)
HugetlbPages size of hugetlb memory portions
Threads number of threads
SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue
--
2.5.2
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