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[PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations

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First post2015-10-02 15:40 +0200
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  [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2015-10-02 15:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap  limitations Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> - 2015-10-02 17:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap  limitations Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> - 2015-10-05 03:10 +0200

#1238221 — [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations

FromVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Date2015-10-02 15:40 +0200
Subject[PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations
Message-ID<qf8J4-4MS-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
The documentation for /proc/pid/status does not mention that the value of
VmSwap counts only swapped out anonymous private pages and not shmem. This is
not obvious, so document this limitation.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a99b208..7ef50cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1)
  VmPTE                       size of page table entries
  VmPMD                       size of second level page tables
  VmSwap                      size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents)
+                             by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not
+                             included)
  HugetlbPages                size of hugetlb memory portions
  Threads                     number of threads
  SigQ                        number of signals queued/max. number for queue
-- 
2.5.2

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#1238338 — Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations

FromJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Date2015-10-02 17:00 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations
Message-ID<qf9Yv-6vE-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1238221

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On 10/02/2015 03:35 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> The documentation for /proc/pid/status does not mention that the value of
> VmSwap counts only swapped out anonymous private pages and not shmem. This is
> not obvious, so document this limitation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>



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#1239243 — Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations

FromHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Date2015-10-05 03:10 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations
Message-ID<qg2rT-pk-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1238221
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> The documentation for /proc/pid/status does not mention that the value of
> VmSwap counts only swapped out anonymous private pages and not shmem. This is
> not obvious, so document this limitation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> index a99b208..7ef50cb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> @@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1)
>   VmPTE                       size of page table entries
>   VmPMD                       size of second level page tables
>   VmSwap                      size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents)
> +                             by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not
> +                             included)

I have difficulty in reading "size of swap usage (the number of referred
swapents) by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not included)".

Luckily, VmSwap never was "the number of referred swapents", it's in kB.
So I suggest                    amount of swap used by anonymous private data
                                (shmem swap usage is not included)

for which you can assume Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

Hugh

>   HugetlbPages                size of hugetlb memory portions
>   Threads                     number of threads
>   SigQ                        number of signals queued/max. number for queue
> -- 
> 2.5.2
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