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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 402ab99e4..843b045b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ read the file /proc/PID/status: VmLck: 0 kB VmHWM: 476 kB VmRSS: 476 kB + RssAnon: 352 kB + RssFile: 120 kB + RssShmem: 4 kB VmData: 156 kB VmStk: 88 kB VmExe: 68 kB @@ -231,14 +234,20 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1) VmSize total program size VmLck locked memory size VmHWM peak resident set size ("high water mark") - VmRSS size of memory portions - VmData size of data, stack, and text segments - VmStk size of data, stack, and text segments + VmRSS size of memory portions. It contains the three + following parts (VmRSS = RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem) + RssAnon size of resident anonymous memory + RssFile size of resident file mappings + RssShmem size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm, + mapping of tmpfs and shared anonymous mappings) + VmData size of private data segments + VmStk size of stack segments VmExe size of text segment VmLib size of shared library code VmPTE size of page table entries VmPMD size of second level page tables - VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents) + VmSwap amount of swap used by anonymous private data + (shmem swap usage is not included) HugetlbPages size of hugetlb memory portions Threads number of threads SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue @@ -265,7 +274,8 @@ Table 1-3: Contents of the statm files (as of 2.6.8-rc3) Field Content size total program size (pages) (same as VmSize in status) resident size of memory portions (pages) (same as VmRSS in status) - shared number of pages that are shared (i.e. backed by a file) + shared number of pages that are shared (i.e. backed by a file, same + as RssFile+RssShmem in status) trs number of pages that are 'code' (not including libs; broken, includes data segment) lrs number of pages of library (always 0 on 2.6) @@ -346,7 +356,7 @@ address perms offset dev inode pathname a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 -a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack:1001] +a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a8008000-a800a000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 a800a000-a800b000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 @@ -378,7 +388,6 @@ is not associated with a file: [heap] = the heap of the program [stack] = the stack of the main process - [stack:1001] = the stack of the thread with tid 1001 [vdso] = the "virtual dynamic shared object", the kernel system call handler @@ -386,10 +395,8 @@ is not associated with a file: The /proc/PID/task/TID/maps is a view of the virtual memory from the viewpoint of the individual tasks of a process. In this file you will see a mapping marked -as [stack] if that task sees it as a stack. This is a key difference from the -content of /proc/PID/maps, where you will see all mappings that are being used -as stack by all of those tasks. Hence, for the example above, the task-level -map, i.e. /proc/PID/task/TID/maps for thread 1001 will look like this: +as [stack] if that task sees it as a stack. Hence, for the example above, the +task-level map, i.e. /proc/PID/task/TID/maps for thread 1001 will look like this: 08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/test 08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/test @@ -459,7 +466,10 @@ and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy. hugetlbfs page which is *not* counted in "RSS" or "PSS" field for historical reasons. And these are not included in {Shared,Private}_{Clean,Dirty} field. "Swap" shows how much would-be-anonymous memory is also used, but out on swap. -"SwapPss" shows proportional swap share of this mapping. +For shmem mappings, "Swap" includes also the size of the mapped (and not +replaced by copy-on-write) part of the underlying shmem object out on swap. +"SwapPss" shows proportional swap share of this mapping. Unlike "Swap", this +does not take into account swapped out page of underlying shmem objects. "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not. "VmFlags" field deserves a separate description. This member represents the kernel @@ -807,7 +817,7 @@ by migrate-type and finishes with details on how many page blocks of each type exist. If min_free_kbytes has been tuned correctly (recommendations made by hugeadm -from libhugetlbfs http://sourceforge.net/projects/libhugetlbfs/), one can +from libhugetlbfs https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/), one can make an estimate of the likely number of huge pages that can be allocated at a given point in time. All the "Movable" blocks should be allocatable unless memory has been mlock()'d. Some of the Reclaimable blocks should @@ -842,6 +852,7 @@ Dirty: 968 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 861800 kB Mapped: 280372 kB +Shmem: 644 kB Slab: 284364 kB SReclaimable: 159856 kB SUnreclaim: 124508 kB @@ -898,6 +909,7 @@ MemAvailable: An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables AnonHugePages: Non-file backed huge pages mapped into userspace page tables Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries + Shmem: Total memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs Slab: in-kernel data structures cache SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches SUnreclaim: Part of Slab, that cannot be reclaimed on memory pressure |