[PATCH v2 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations
From: Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
Date: 2015-03-27 16:40:57
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documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a07ba61..d4f56ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) VmLib size of shared library code VmPTE size of page table entries 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
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