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diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt index 9b53d5827361..1c07547d3f81 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | |||
@@ -112,14 +112,22 @@ the per cgroup LRU. | |||
112 | 112 | ||
113 | 2.2.1 Accounting details | 113 | 2.2.1 Accounting details |
114 | 114 | ||
115 | All mapped pages (RSS) and unmapped user pages (Page Cache) are accounted. | 115 | All mapped anon pages (RSS) and cache pages (Page Cache) are accounted. |
116 | RSS pages are accounted at the time of page_add_*_rmap() unless they've already | 116 | (some pages which never be reclaimable and will not be on global LRU |
117 | been accounted for earlier. A file page will be accounted for as Page Cache; | 117 | are not accounted. we just accounts pages under usual vm management.) |
118 | it's mapped into the page tables of a process, duplicate accounting is carefully | 118 | |
119 | avoided. Page Cache pages are accounted at the time of add_to_page_cache(). | 119 | RSS pages are accounted at page_fault unless they've already been accounted |
120 | The corresponding routines that remove a page from the page tables or removes | 120 | for earlier. A file page will be accounted for as Page Cache when it's |
121 | a page from Page Cache is used to decrement the accounting counters of the | 121 | inserted into inode (radix-tree). While it's mapped into the page tables of |
122 | cgroup. | 122 | processes, duplicate accounting is carefully avoided. |
123 | |||
124 | A RSS page is unaccounted when it's fully unmapped. A PageCache page is | ||
125 | unaccounted when it's removed from radix-tree. | ||
126 | |||
127 | At page migration, accounting information is kept. | ||
128 | |||
129 | Note: we just account pages-on-lru because our purpose is to control amount | ||
130 | of used pages. not-on-lru pages are tend to be out-of-control from vm view. | ||
123 | 131 | ||
124 | 2.3 Shared Page Accounting | 132 | 2.3 Shared Page Accounting |
125 | 133 | ||