Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Nikanth Karthikesan <> | Subject | [PATCH] Document the new Anonymous field in smaps. | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:34:59 +0530 |
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Sorry, I missed to add documentation, when I sent the patch. This depends on the patch titled, "[PATCH] Export amount of anonymous memory in a mapping via smaps".
Thanks Nikanth
Document the new Anonymous field in smaps.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a6aca87..75c7368 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -370,6 +370,7 @@ Shared_Dirty: 0 kB Private_Clean: 0 kB Private_Dirty: 0 kB Referenced: 892 kB +Anonymous: 0 kB Swap: 0 kB KernelPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB @@ -380,7 +381,10 @@ the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM, the "proportional set size” (divide each shared page by the number of processes sharing it), the number of clean and dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean and dirty private pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount -of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed. +of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed. The "Anonymous" shows +the amount of mapping that is not associated with a file. Even the private +pages in a mapping associated with a file, would become anonymous, when they +are modified. This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is enabled. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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