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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2009-10-08 03:32:28 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-10-08 18:36:39 +0400
commita1bbb5ec39042fb762e7f4bcc634da0d87834193 (patch)
tree20bb538ee4b3a9fbf5e8e9d1988fed2011deffce /Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
parent253fb02d62571e5455eedc9e39b9d660e86a40f0 (diff)
downloadlinux-a1bbb5ec39042fb762e7f4bcc634da0d87834193.tar.xz
pagemap: document KPF_KSM and show it in page-types
It indicates to the system admin that processes mapping such pages may be eating less physical memory than the reported numbers by legacy tools. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
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@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
18. UNEVICTABLE
19. HWPOISON
20. NOPAGE
+ 21. KSM
Short descriptions to the page flags:
@@ -93,6 +94,9 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags:
20. NOPAGE
no page frame exists at the requested address
+21. KSM
+ identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes
+
[IO related page flags]
1. ERROR IO error occurred
3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data