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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mm: Distinguish between mlocked and pinned pages
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:59:18 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1108230958510.21267@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110817155412.cc302033.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:

> This is an obvious place.  Could I ask that you split all these up into
> one-definition-per-line and we can start in on properly documenting
> each field?

Subject: mm: Add comments to explain mm_struct fields

Explain comments to explain the page statistics field in the
mm_struct.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>

---
 include/linux/mm_types.h |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm_types.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm_types.h	2011-08-23 09:43:32.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm_types.h	2011-08-23 09:52:09.000000000 -0500
@@ -281,8 +281,15 @@ struct mm_struct {
 	unsigned long hiwater_rss;	/* High-watermark of RSS usage */
 	unsigned long hiwater_vm;	/* High-water virtual memory usage */

-	unsigned long total_vm, locked_vm, pinned_vm, shared_vm, exec_vm;
-	unsigned long stack_vm, reserved_vm, def_flags, nr_ptes;
+	unsigned long total_vm;		/* Total pages mapped */
+	unsigned long locked_vm		/* Pages that have PG_mlocked set */
+	unsigned long pinned_vm;	/* Refcount permanently increased */
+	unsigned long shared_vm;	/* Shared pages (files) */
+	unsigned long exec_vm;		/* VM_EXEC & ~VM_WRITE */
+	unsigned long stack_vm;		/* VM_GROWSUP/DOWN */
+	unsigned long reserved_vm;	/* VM_RESERVED|VM_IO pages */
+	unsigned long def_flags;
+	unsigned long nr_ptes;		/* Page table pages */
 	unsigned long start_code, end_code, start_data, end_data;
 	unsigned long start_brk, brk, start_stack;
 	unsigned long arg_start, arg_end, env_start, env_end;

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-23 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-10 20:21 Christoph Lameter
2011-08-17 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-18 23:51   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-08-23 14:59   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]

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