Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations

[Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> ---
> 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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