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author | Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> | 2011-01-13 18:45:53 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-13 20:32:33 -0500 |
commit | 2d90508f638241a2e7422d884767398296ebe720 (patch) | |
tree | 5b80c4919d924ab76c02b629465cbc7820010a53 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
parent | 62c70bce8ac236514c610020bb1ae5b8bde965cb (diff) |
mm: smaps: export mlock information
Currently there is no way to find whether a process has locked its pages
in memory or not. And which of the memory regions are locked in memory.
Add a new field "Locked" to export this information via the smaps file.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.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 | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 9471225212c4..ef757fca470b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |||
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ Anonymous: 0 kB | |||
375 | Swap: 0 kB | 375 | Swap: 0 kB |
376 | KernelPageSize: 4 kB | 376 | KernelPageSize: 4 kB |
377 | MMUPageSize: 4 kB | 377 | MMUPageSize: 4 kB |
378 | Locked: 374 kB | ||
378 | 379 | ||
379 | The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the | 380 | The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the |
380 | mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping | 381 | mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping |
@@ -670,6 +671,8 @@ varies by architecture and compile options. The following is from a | |||
670 | 671 | ||
671 | > cat /proc/meminfo | 672 | > cat /proc/meminfo |
672 | 673 | ||
674 | The "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not. | ||
675 | |||
673 | 676 | ||
674 | MemTotal: 16344972 kB | 677 | MemTotal: 16344972 kB |
675 | MemFree: 13634064 kB | 678 | MemFree: 13634064 kB |