The patch titled
Subject: proc-show-madv_free-pages-info-in-smaps-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
proc-show-madv_free-pages-info-in-smaps-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc-show-madv_free-pages-info-in-smaps-fix.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc-show-madv_free-pages-info-in-smaps-fix.patch
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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: proc-show-madv_free-pages-info-in-smaps-fix
update Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt~proc-show-madv_free-pages-info-in-smaps-fix Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt~proc-show-madv_free-pages-info-in-smaps-fix
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -444,7 +444,9 @@ a mapping associated with a file may con
and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy.
"LazyFree" shows the amount of memory which is marked by madvise(MADV_FREE).
The memory isn't freed immediately with madvise(). It's freed in memory
-pressure if the memory is clean.
+pressure if the memory is clean. Please note that the printed value might
+be lower than the real value due to optimizations used in the current
+implementation. If this is not desirable please file a bug report.
"AnonHugePages" shows the ammount of memory backed by transparent hugepage.
"ShmemPmdMapped" shows the ammount of shared (shmem/tmpfs) memory backed by
huge pages.
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx are
proc-show-madv_free-pages-info-in-smaps-fix.patch
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