[PATCH] Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-09-20T03:54:11Z

Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>

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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a6aca87..a9c85a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc
statm Process memory status information
status Process status in human readable form
wchan If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is set, a pre-decoded wchan
+ pagemap Page table
stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE
smaps a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of
each mapping
@@ -397,6 +398,9 @@ To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process
> echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect.

+The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags
+using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using
+/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt.

1.2 Kernel data
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