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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-05-29 18:06:45 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-29 19:22:23 -0400
commit692569946fbf56fbb75d85c57679541f9a3550b4 (patch)
tree74e8dbcec28756ef92a9782b7e17311c47b72597 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
parent51300cef41c9355a7d428fe0714888d3c72a6f2f (diff)
mm: document the meminfo and vmstat fields of relevance to transparent hugepages
Update Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt and Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt with some information on monitoring transparent huge page usage and the associated overhead. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ Committed_AS: 100056 kB
743VmallocTotal: 112216 kB 743VmallocTotal: 112216 kB
744VmallocUsed: 428 kB 744VmallocUsed: 428 kB
745VmallocChunk: 111088 kB 745VmallocChunk: 111088 kB
746AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
746 747
747 MemTotal: Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved 748 MemTotal: Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved
748 bits and the kernel binary code) 749 bits and the kernel binary code)
@@ -776,6 +777,7 @@ VmallocChunk: 111088 kB
776 Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk 777 Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk
777 Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk 778 Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk
778 AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables 779 AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables
780AnonHugePages: Non-file backed huge pages mapped into userspace page tables
779 Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries 781 Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries
780 Slab: in-kernel data structures cache 782 Slab: in-kernel data structures cache
781SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches 783SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches