On 30 April 2015 at 13:14, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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". Thanks, Kirill. I change the text to what you wrote. > 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. Oh -- I didn't realize we were getting another level of PTs! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
