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1132.2.1 Accounting details 1132.2.1 Accounting details
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115All mapped pages (RSS) and unmapped user pages (Page Cache) are accounted. 115All mapped anon pages (RSS) and cache pages (Page Cache) are accounted.
116RSS 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
117been 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.)
118it's mapped into the page tables of a process, duplicate accounting is carefully 118
119avoided. Page Cache pages are accounted at the time of add_to_page_cache(). 119RSS pages are accounted at page_fault unless they've already been accounted
120The corresponding routines that remove a page from the page tables or removes 120for earlier. A file page will be accounted for as Page Cache when it's
121a page from Page Cache is used to decrement the accounting counters of the 121inserted into inode (radix-tree). While it's mapped into the page tables of
122cgroup. 122processes, duplicate accounting is carefully avoided.
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124A RSS page is unaccounted when it's fully unmapped. A PageCache page is
125unaccounted when it's removed from radix-tree.
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127At page migration, accounting information is kept.
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129Note: we just account pages-on-lru because our purpose is to control amount
130of used pages. not-on-lru pages are tend to be out-of-control from vm view.
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1242.3 Shared Page Accounting 1322.3 Shared Page Accounting
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