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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-08 17:52:23 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-08 17:52:23 -0700 |
commit | f6f7a6369203fa3e07efb7f35cfd81efe9f25b07 (patch) | |
tree | 97bec9ddd999040822acf314647eaf4208213589 /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | 839fe9156fbe89c3157aa6146d22090f8cffddd8 (diff) | |
parent | df69f52d990bd85159727bd26e819d3a6e49c666 (diff) | |
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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()
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 18 |
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: |