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authorMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>2010-10-26 17:21:22 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-26 19:52:05 -0400
commit0f4d208f1975f16f269134cee5f44c1f048581da (patch)
tree0a09155b2e961a7d75f7235dcc72a7fc118272ee /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
parenta4f7326da2bfe788b85509ec0c261e64596cdde4 (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>
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@@ -374,13 +374,13 @@ Swap: 0 kB
374KernelPageSize: 4 kB 374KernelPageSize: 4 kB
375MMUPageSize: 4 kB 375MMUPageSize: 4 kB
376 376
377The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the 377The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the
378mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping, 378mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping
379the 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
380set size” (divide each shared page by the number of processes sharing it), the 380process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and
381number of clean and dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean 381dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean and dirty private
382and dirty private pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount 382pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount of memory
383of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed. 383currently marked as referenced or accessed.
384 384
385This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is 385This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is
386enabled. 386enabled.