On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > > This memory was not included in rss originally because memory in the > > hugetlb persistent pool is always resident. Unmapping the memory does not > > free memory. For this reason, hugetlb memory has always been treated as > > its own type of memory. > > Right, so it might be better not to use the word "RSS" for hugetlb, maybe > something like "HugetlbPages:" seems better to me. > When the pagesize is also specified, as it is in smaps, I think this would be the best option. Note that we can't distinguish between variable hugetlb sizes with VmFlags alone. -- 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>