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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index eb8a10e22f7c..cf6b64a65179 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ is not associated with a file: [stack:1001] = the stack of the thread with tid 1001 [vdso] = the "virtual dynamic shared object", the kernel system call handler + [anon:<name>] = an anonymous mapping that has been + named by userspace or if empty, the mapping is anonymous. @@ -415,25 +417,34 @@ 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 VmFlags: rd ex mr mw me de +Name: name from userspace 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: @@ -470,6 +481,9 @@ Note that there is no guarantee that every flag and associated mnemonic will be present in all further kernel releases. Things get changed, the flags may be vanished or the reverse -- new added. +The "Name" field will only be present on a mapping that has been named by +userspace, and will show the name passed in by userspace. + This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is enabled. @@ -488,6 +502,10 @@ To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process To clear the soft-dirty bit > echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs +To reset the peak resident set size ("high water mark") to the process's +current value: + > echo 5 > /proc/PID/clear_refs + Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect. The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags |