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authorNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>2011-01-13 18:45:53 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 20:32:33 -0500
commit2d90508f638241a2e7422d884767398296ebe720 (patch)
tree5b80c4919d924ab76c02b629465cbc7820010a53 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
parent62c70bce8ac236514c610020bb1ae5b8bde965cb (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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ Anonymous: 0 kB
375Swap: 0 kB 375Swap: 0 kB
376KernelPageSize: 4 kB 376KernelPageSize: 4 kB
377MMUPageSize: 4 kB 377MMUPageSize: 4 kB
378Locked: 374 kB
378 379
379The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the 380The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the
380mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping 381mapping 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
674The "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not.
675
673 676
674MemTotal: 16344972 kB 677MemTotal: 16344972 kB
675MemFree: 13634064 kB 678MemFree: 13634064 kB