Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:36:37 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations |
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[Sorry for a really long delay]
On Wed 05-08-15 15:01:22, 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.
This is definitely an improvement > > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> --- > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > index d411ca6..29f4011 100644 > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > @@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ 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) > Threads number of threads > SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue > SigPnd bitmap of pending signals for the thread > -- > 2.4.6 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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