Re: [PATCH] proc.5: Add description of CLEAR_REFS_MM_HIWATER_RSS

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Petr Cermak [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 12:04:39AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

quoted

The Linux kernel commit 695f05593693 ("fs/proc/task_mmu.c: add
user-space support for resetting mm->hiwater_rss (peak RSS)") added a
way to reset peak RSS of a process but missed to update manpage.

Cc: Petr Cermak <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <redacted>
---
 man5/proc.5 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 14588fe..5cb3c85 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5

@@ -352,6 +352,11 @@ by the check-point restore system to discover which pages of a process
 have been dirtied since the file
 .IR /proc/[pid]/clear_refs
 was written to.
+.TP
+5 (since Linux 4.0)
+.\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_MM_HIWATER_RSS
+Reset the peak resident set size ("high water mark") to the process's
+current value.
 .RE
 .IP
 Writing any value to
--

2.9.3

Thanks for updating the documentation. I think you should also change
the line above from:

  "A further value can be written to affect a different bit:"

to:

  "Further values can be written to affect a different properties:"

Apart from that,

Acked-by: Petr Cermak <redacted>

Thanks, I'll send v2 soon.

Namhyung


-- 
Thanks,
Namhyung Kim
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