linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations

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Message-ID: <560E9B31.6070208@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:56:49 +0200
From:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap
 limitations

On 10/02/2015 03:35 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>




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