On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > > This memory was not included in rss originally because memory in the > > hugetlb persistent pool is always resident. Unmapping the memory does not > > free memory. For this reason, hugetlb memory has always been treated as > > its own type of memory. > > Right, so it might be better not to use the word "RSS" for hugetlb, maybe > something like "HugetlbPages:" seems better to me. >
When the pagesize is also specified, as it is in smaps, I think this would be the best option. Note that we can't distinguish between variable hugetlb sizes with VmFlags alone. -- 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/
