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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations
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On 10/05/2015 03:05 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
>> @@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1)
>> VmPTE size of page table entries
>> VmPMD size of second level page tables
>> VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents)
>> + by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not
>> + included)
>
> I have difficulty in reading "size of swap usage (the number of referred
> swapents) by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not included)".
>
> Luckily, VmSwap never was "the number of referred swapents", it's in kB.
> So I suggest amount of swap used by anonymous private data
> (shmem swap usage is not included)

Good point, thanks!

> for which you can assume Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
>
> Hugh
>


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