From 0f4d208f1975f16f269134cee5f44c1f048581da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:21:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: improve smaps field documentation Signed-off-by: Matt 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a6aca8740883..a563b74c7aef 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -374,13 +374,13 @@ Swap: 0 kB KernelPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB -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, -the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM, the "proportional -set size†(divide each shared page by the number of processes sharing it), the -number of clean and dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean -and dirty private pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount -of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed. +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 +(size), the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS), the +process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and +dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean and dirty private +pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount of memory +currently marked as referenced or accessed. This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is enabled. -- GitLab