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author | Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2009-10-07 19:32:28 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-10-08 10:36:39 -0400 |
commit | a1bbb5ec39042fb762e7f4bcc634da0d87834193 (patch) | |
tree | 20bb538ee4b3a9fbf5e8e9d1988fed2011deffce /Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | |
parent | 253fb02d62571e5455eedc9e39b9d660e86a40f0 (diff) |
pagemap: document KPF_KSM and show it in page-types
It indicates to the system admin that processes mapping such pages may be
eating less physical memory than the reported numbers by legacy tools.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt index 2fdd84a19109..df09b9650a81 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | |||
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ There are three components to pagemap: | |||
59 | 18. UNEVICTABLE | 59 | 18. UNEVICTABLE |
60 | 19. HWPOISON | 60 | 19. HWPOISON |
61 | 20. NOPAGE | 61 | 20. NOPAGE |
62 | 21. KSM | ||
62 | 63 | ||
63 | Short descriptions to the page flags: | 64 | Short descriptions to the page flags: |
64 | 65 | ||
@@ -93,6 +94,9 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags: | |||
93 | 20. NOPAGE | 94 | 20. NOPAGE |
94 | no page frame exists at the requested address | 95 | no page frame exists at the requested address |
95 | 96 | ||
97 | 21. KSM | ||
98 | identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes | ||
99 | |||
96 | [IO related page flags] | 100 | [IO related page flags] |
97 | 1. ERROR IO error occurred | 101 | 1. ERROR IO error occurred |
98 | 3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data | 102 | 3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data |