Commit 0f4d208f authored by Matt Mackall's avatar Matt Mackall Committed by Linus Torvalds

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: improve smaps field documentation

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent a4f7326d
...@@ -374,13 +374,13 @@ Swap: 0 kB ...@@ -374,13 +374,13 @@ Swap: 0 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB
The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the
mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping, mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping
the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM, the "proportional (size), the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS), the
set size” (divide each shared page by the number of processes sharing it), the process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and
number of clean and dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean and dirty private
and dirty private pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount of memory
of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed. currently marked as referenced or accessed.
This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is
enabled. enabled.
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