Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm, documentation: clarify /proc/pid/status VmSwap limitations

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 10/05/2015 03:05 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
>> @@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1)
>>    VmPTE                       size of page table entries
>>    VmPMD                       size of second level page tables
>>    VmSwap                      size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents)
>> +                             by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not
>> +                             included)
>
> I have difficulty in reading "size of swap usage (the number of referred
> swapents) by anonymous private data (shmem swap usage is not included)".
>
> Luckily, VmSwap never was "the number of referred swapents", it's in kB.
> So I suggest                    amount of swap used by anonymous private data
>                                  (shmem swap usage is not included)

Good point, thanks!

> for which you can assume Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
>
> Hugh
>

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