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authorLinus Torvalds2015-09-08 17:52:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2015-09-08 17:52:23 -0700
commitf6f7a6369203fa3e07efb7f35cfd81efe9f25b07 (patch)
tree97bec9ddd999040822acf314647eaf4208213589 /Documentation/filesystems
parent839fe9156fbe89c3157aa6146d22090f8cffddd8 (diff)
parentdf69f52d990bd85159727bd26e819d3a6e49c666 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: "Almost all of the rest of MM. There was an unusually large amount of MM material this time" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits) zpool: remove no-op module init/exit mm: zbud: constify the zbud_ops mm: zpool: constify the zpool_ops mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload & refactoring zram: unify error reporting zsmalloc: remove null check from destroy_handle_cache() zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_shrinker_count() zsmalloc: use class->pages_per_zspage zsmalloc: consider ZS_ALMOST_FULL as migrate source zsmalloc: partial page ordering within a fullness_list zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages zsmalloc/zram: introduce zs_pool_stats api zsmalloc: cosmetic compaction code adjustments zsmalloc: introduce zs_can_compact() function zsmalloc: always keep per-class stats zsmalloc: drop unused variable `nr_to_migrate' mm/memblock.c: fix comment in __next_mem_range() mm/page_alloc.c: fix type information of memoryless node memory-hotplug: fix comments in zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_spanned_pages_in_node() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt18
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
index 7af2851d667c..7bde64014a89 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
@@ -60,9 +60,10 @@ Filesystem support consists of
- implementing the direct_IO address space operation, and calling
dax_do_io() instead of blockdev_direct_IO() if S_DAX is set
- implementing an mmap file operation for DAX files which sets the
- VM_MIXEDMAP flag on the VMA, and setting the vm_ops to include handlers
- for fault and page_mkwrite (which should probably call dax_fault() and
- dax_mkwrite(), passing the appropriate get_block() callback)
+ VM_MIXEDMAP and VM_HUGEPAGE flags on the VMA, and setting the vm_ops to
+ include handlers for fault, pmd_fault and page_mkwrite (which should
+ probably call dax_fault(), dax_pmd_fault() and dax_mkwrite(), passing the
+ appropriate get_block() callback)
- calling dax_truncate_page() instead of block_truncate_page() for DAX files
- calling dax_zero_page_range() instead of zero_user() for DAX files
- ensuring that there is sufficient locking between reads, writes,
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 6f7fafde0884..d411ca63c8b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -424,6 +424,7 @@ Private_Dirty: 0 kB
Referenced: 892 kB
Anonymous: 0 kB
Swap: 0 kB
+SwapPss: 0 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
Locked: 374 kB
@@ -433,16 +434,23 @@ the first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the
mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping
(size), the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS), the
process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and
-dirty private pages in the mapping. Note that even a page which is part of a
-MAP_SHARED mapping, but has only a single pte mapped, i.e. is currently used
-by only one process, is accounted as private and not as shared. "Referenced"
-indicates the amount of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed.
+dirty private pages in the mapping.
+
+The "proportional set size" (PSS) of a process is the count of pages it has
+in memory, where each page is divided by the number of processes sharing it.
+So if a process has 1000 pages all to itself, and 1000 shared with one other
+process, its PSS will be 1500.
+Note that even a page which is part of a MAP_SHARED mapping, but has only
+a single pte mapped, i.e. is currently used by only one process, is accounted
+as private and not as shared.
+"Referenced" indicates the amount of memory currently marked as referenced or
+accessed.
"Anonymous" shows the amount of memory that does not belong to any file. Even
a mapping associated with a file may contain anonymous pages: when MAP_PRIVATE
and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy.
"Swap" shows how much would-be-anonymous memory is also used, but out on
swap.
-
+"SwapPss" shows proportional swap share of this mapping.
"VmFlags" field deserves a separate description. This member represents the kernel
flags associated with the particular virtual memory area in two letter encoded
manner. The codes are the following: