The patch titled mm: add comments to explain mm_struct fields has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-add-comments-to-explain-mm_struct-fields.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: add comments to explain mm_struct fields From: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Add comments to explain the page statistics field in the mm_struct. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mm_types.h | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-add-comments-to-explain-mm_struct-fields include/linux/mm_types.h --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-add-comments-to-explain-mm_struct-fields +++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -281,8 +281,15 @@ struct mm_struct { unsigned long hiwater_rss; /* High-watermark of RSS usage */ unsigned long hiwater_vm; /* High-water virtual memory usage */ - unsigned long total_vm, locked_vm, pinned_vm, shared_vm, exec_vm; - unsigned long stack_vm, reserved_vm, def_flags, nr_ptes; + unsigned long total_vm; /* Total pages mapped */ + unsigned long locked_vm /* Pages that have PG_mlocked set */ + unsigned long pinned_vm; /* Refcount permanently increased */ + unsigned long shared_vm; /* Shared pages (files) */ + unsigned long exec_vm; /* VM_EXEC & ~VM_WRITE */ + unsigned long stack_vm; /* VM_GROWSUP/DOWN */ + unsigned long reserved_vm; /* VM_RESERVED|VM_IO pages */ + unsigned long def_flags; + unsigned long nr_ptes; /* Page table pages */ unsigned long start_code, end_code, start_data, end_data; unsigned long start_brk, brk, start_stack; unsigned long arg_start, arg_end, env_start, env_end; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cl@xxxxxxxxx are mm-distinguish-between-mlocked-and-pinned-pages.patch mm-add-comments-to-explain-mm_struct-fields.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html