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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 1f9615553b82..2b59cff8be17 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ Memory Area, or VMA) there is a series of lines such as the following:: Private_Dirty: 0 kB Referenced: 892 kB Anonymous: 0 kB + KSM: 0 kB LazyFree: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB @@ -501,6 +502,9 @@ accessed. a mapping associated with a file may contain anonymous pages: when MAP_PRIVATE and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy. +"KSM" reports how many of the pages are KSM pages. Note that KSM-placed zeropages +are not included, only actual KSM pages. + "LazyFree" shows the amount of memory which is marked by madvise(MADV_FREE). The memory isn't freed immediately with madvise(). It's freed in memory pressure if the memory is clean. Please note that the printed value might |