Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:16:29 +0900 | From | Kamezawa Hiroyuki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |
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(2012/11/16 16:01), Michael Kerrisk wrote: > 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@gmail.com> >
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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