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author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-05-29 18:06:45 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-29 19:22:23 -0400 |
commit | 692569946fbf56fbb75d85c57679541f9a3550b4 (patch) | |
tree | 74e8dbcec28756ef92a9782b7e17311c47b72597 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
parent | 51300cef41c9355a7d428fe0714888d3c72a6f2f (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index ef088e55ab2e..912af6ce5626 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |||
@@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ Committed_AS: 100056 kB | |||
743 | VmallocTotal: 112216 kB | 743 | VmallocTotal: 112216 kB |
744 | VmallocUsed: 428 kB | 744 | VmallocUsed: 428 kB |
745 | VmallocChunk: 111088 kB | 745 | VmallocChunk: 111088 kB |
746 | AnonHugePages: 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 |
780 | AnonHugePages: 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 |
781 | SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches | 783 | SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches |