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>
---
I've noticed that proc(5) manpage is currently missing the VmSwap field
altogether.

 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
--

2.1.4

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