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author | Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> | 2010-10-26 17:21:22 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-26 19:52:05 -0400 |
commit | 0f4d208f1975f16f269134cee5f44c1f048581da (patch) | |
tree | 0a09155b2e961a7d75f7235dcc72a7fc118272ee /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
parent | a4f7326da2bfe788b85509ec0c261e64596cdde4 (diff) |
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: improve smaps field documentation
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a6aca8740883..a563b74c7aef 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |||
@@ -374,13 +374,13 @@ Swap: 0 kB | |||
374 | KernelPageSize: 4 kB | 374 | KernelPageSize: 4 kB |
375 | MMUPageSize: 4 kB | 375 | MMUPageSize: 4 kB |
376 | 376 | ||
377 | The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the | 377 | The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the |
378 | mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping, | 378 | mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping |
379 | the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM, the "proportional | 379 | (size), the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS), the |
380 | set size” (divide each shared page by the number of processes sharing it), the | 380 | process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and |
381 | number of clean and dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean | 381 | dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean and dirty private |
382 | and dirty private pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount | 382 | pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount of memory |
383 | of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed. | 383 | currently marked as referenced or accessed. |
384 | 384 | ||
385 | This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is | 385 | This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is |
386 | enabled. | 386 | enabled. |