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authorMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-04-18 11:07:46 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2018-04-28 02:02:37 +0300
commit86207d9a90c27acc15e99f1148ce4f873882ea1a (patch)
tree2833a881d3c21976359e101d145aa4930485b907
parent946280cdfc211b4870d54c07f8a2aa82203d6886 (diff)
downloadlinux-86207d9a90c27acc15e99f1148ce4f873882ea1a.tar.xz
docs/vm: pagemap: formatting and spelling updates
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst
index d54b4bfd3043..9644bc0d6289 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ There are four components to pagemap:
* ``/proc/pid/pagemap``. This file lets a userspace process find out which
physical frame each virtual page is mapped to. It contains one 64-bit
value for each virtual page, containing the following data (from
- fs/proc/task_mmu.c, above pagemap_read):
+ ``fs/proc/task_mmu.c``, above pagemap_read):
* Bits 0-54 page frame number (PFN) if present
* Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ There are four components to pagemap:
precisely which pages are mapped (or in swap) and comparing mapped
pages between processes.
- Efficient users of this interface will use /proc/pid/maps to
+ Efficient users of this interface will use ``/proc/pid/maps`` to
determine which areas of memory are actually mapped and llseek to
skip over unmapped regions.
@@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ There are four components to pagemap:
memory cgroup each page is charged to, indexed by PFN. Only available when
CONFIG_MEMCG is set.
-Short descriptions to the page flags:
-=====================================
+Short descriptions to the page flags
+====================================
0 - LOCKED
- page is being locked for exclusive access, eg. by undergoing read/write IO
+ page is being locked for exclusive access, e.g. by undergoing read/write IO
7 - SLAB
page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator
When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ IO related page flags
ie. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision >= on-disk one)
4 - DIRTY
page has been written to, hence contains new data
- ie. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision > on-disk one)
+ i.e. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision > on-disk one)
8 - WRITEBACK
page is being synced to disk
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ LRU related page flags
page is in the active LRU list
18 - UNEVICTABLE
page is in the unevictable (non-)LRU list It is somehow pinned and
- not a candidate for LRU page reclaims, eg. ramfs pages,
+ not a candidate for LRU page reclaims, e.g. ramfs pages,
shmctl(SHM_LOCK) and mlock() memory segments
2 - REFERENCED
page has been referenced since last LRU list enqueue/requeue
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ LRU related page flags
12 - ANON
a memory mapped page that is not part of a file
13 - SWAPCACHE
- page is mapped to swap space, ie. has an associated swap entry
+ page is mapped to swap space, i.e. has an associated swap entry
14 - SWAPBACKED
page is backed by swap/RAM