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

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Message-ID: <20180710151656.5ecaae11@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:16:56 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Prashant Dhamdhere <pdhamdhe@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: proc.txt: Adding 'HardwareCorrupted'
 parameter and description.

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

>         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