Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > [CC += Kirill] > > Hello Weijie Yang, and Kirill, > > Kirill, your commit changed the user-space ABI but there was nothing > in the commit message about that, nor did it CC linux-api@. It makes > my life easier when those things happen ;-). > > On 28 April 2015 at 10:47, Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Since kernel v4.0, pmd page account is added into /proc/[pid]/status > > > > See detail: > > commit dc6c9a35b66b520cf67e05d8ca60ebecad3b0479 > > Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wed Feb 11 15:26:50 2015 -0800 > > > > mm: account pmd page tables to the process > > > > > > I don't find a description for it when I read the latest man-page, so I send this email. > > Maybe there is already a plan for it and I miss it, anyway, I send this report. > > I added the following to the proc(5) entry for /proc/PID/status: > > VmPMD : Page middle directory size (since Linux 4.0). I'm not native speaker, but I think "directory" should be plural -- there are more than one directory. And I would rather say "Size of second level page tables". PMD is not really in middle since 4-level page tables was introduced and definitely will not be in middle when we get 5-level page tables. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
