Re: [PATCH v2] proc.5: Add description of CLEAR_REFS_MM_HIWATER_RSS
From: Petr Cermak <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-09 09:43:56
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 03:03:13PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
quoted hunk
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 | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 14588fe..cf32e0f 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ process during the measured interval. If one is interested only in inspecting the selected mapping types, then the value 2 or 3 can be used instead of 1. -A further value can be written to affect a different bit: +A further value can be written to affect different properties: .RS .TP 4 (since Linux 3.11)@@ -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' +current value. .RE .IP Writing any value to-- 2.9.3
Please also change "A further value" to "Further values" since there are now two (CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY (4) and CLEAR_REFS_MM_HIWATER_RSS (5)). Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html