linux-kernel - [RFC] mm: why cat /proc/pid/smaps | grep Rss is different from cat /proc/pid/statm?

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Date:	Tue, 22 Mar 2016 21:55:58 +0800
From:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
To:	Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC] mm: why cat /proc/pid/smaps | grep Rss is different from cat
 /proc/pid/statm?

[root@...alhost c_test]# cat /proc/3948/smaps | grep Rss
Rss:                   4 kB
Rss:                   4 kB
Rss:                   4 kB
Rss:                 796 kB
Rss:                   0 kB
Rss:                  16 kB
Rss:                   8 kB
Rss:                  12 kB
Rss:                 132 kB
Rss:                  12 kB
Rss:                   4 kB
Rss:                   4 kB
Rss:                   4 kB
Rss:                   4 kB
Rss:                  12 kB
Rss:                   0 kB
Rss:                   4 kB
Rss:                   0 kB
[root@...alhost c_test]# cat /proc/3948/statm
1042 173 154 1 0 48 0

173 means Rss is 173*4kb=692kb, right?
so why it is different from the sum(1020kb) of "cat /proc/pid/smaps | grep Rss"?

my test code is
...
int main()
{
	sleep(1000);
	return 0;
}

the kernel version is v4.1

Thanks,
Xishi Qiu