Commit 8d719afc authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Linus Torvalds

docs: proc.rst: meminfo: briefly describe gaps in memory accounting

Add a paragraph that explains that it may happen that the counters in
/proc/meminfo do not add up to the overall memory usage.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421061127.1182723-1-rppt@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 781eb2cd
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~~~~~~~
Provides information about distribution and utilization of memory. This
varies by architecture and compile options. The following is from a
16GB PIII, which has highmem enabled. You may not have all of these fields.
varies by architecture and compile options. Some of the counters reported
here overlap. The memory reported by the non overlapping counters may not
add up to the overall memory usage and the difference for some workloads
can be substantial. In many cases there are other means to find out
additional memory using subsystem specific interfaces, for instance
/proc/net/sockstat for TCP memory allocations.
The following is from a 16GB PIII, which has highmem enabled.
You may not have all of these fields.
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