RE: Getting page usage info from /proc/slabinfo

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> Hi ,
> 
>   Is there any document which would explain the individual 
> caches displayed in /proc/slabinfo .
> " man slabinfo " does not help .
> 
> For example what does "size-8192" ,etc fields represent ? 
> Are they the pages distributed by the buddy allocator ?
> 
The "size-" fields are the one gets allocated by kmalloc(). It varies
from 32 bytes to 128K. These are the slabs for general purpose usage (
Not for any well known kernel structures ).  Other things in the
slabinfo are for well known kernel structures.


>  If no, how to find the page usage distribution from proc ? I 
> needed the information similar to that displayed in ALT+SYSRQ+M .
> 
>   TIA .
> 
> Cheers !
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