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 <vba...@suse.cz> --- I've noticed that proc(5) manpage is currently missing the VmSwap field altogether. Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a07ba61..d4f56ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) VmLib size of shared library code VmPTE size of page table entries VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents) + by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not + included) Threads number of threads SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue SigPnd bitmap of pending signals for the thread -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
