On Fri 16-11-12 08:01:42, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > After migrating most of the information in > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page, > Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree > in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right, > but am given pause by fact that that text has been in > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0. > Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things. Yes, this goes back to 2003 when the /proc/meminfo doc has been added. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > index a1793d6..cf4260f 100644 > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > @@ -778,8 +778,7 @@ AnonHugePages: 49152 kB > other things, it is where everything from the Slab is > allocated. Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem. > SwapTotal: total amount of swap space available > - SwapFree: Memory which has been evicted from RAM, and is temporarily > - on the disk > + SwapFree: Amount of swap space that is currently unused. > Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk > Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk > AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a> -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>