[CC += linux-api@] On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The documentation for /proc/pid/status does not mention that the value of > VmSwap counts only swapped out anonymous private pages and not shmem. This is > not obvious, so document this limitation. > > Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> > --- > I've noticed that proc(5) manpage is currently missing the VmSwap field > altogether. > > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > index a07ba61..d4f56ec 100644 > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > @@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) > VmLib size of shared library code > VmPTE size of page table entries > VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents) > + by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not > + included) > Threads number of threads > SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue > SigPnd bitmap of pending signals for the thread > -- > 2.1.4 > > -- > 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> -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface", http://blog.man7.org/ -- 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>