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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-12 18:54:28 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-12 18:54:28 -0800 |
commit | 818099574b04c5301eacbbcd441022b353a65466 (patch) | |
tree | 77b3645b375105cb0389df2b4ea5ffa90329f7f8 /Documentation | |
parent | 802ea9d8645d33d24b7b4cd4537c14f3e698bde0 (diff) | |
parent | 6016daed58ee482a2f7684e93342e89139cf4419 (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge third set of updates from Andrew Morton:
- the rest of MM
[ This includes getting rid of the numa hinting bits, in favor of
just generic protnone logic. Yay. - Linus ]
- core kernel
- procfs
- some of lib/ (lots of lib/ material this time)
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (104 commits)
lib/lcm.c: replace include
lib/percpu_ida.c: remove redundant includes
lib/strncpy_from_user.c: replace module.h include
lib/stmp_device.c: replace module.h include
lib/sort.c: move include inside #if 0
lib/show_mem.c: remove redundant include
lib/radix-tree.c: change to simpler include
lib/plist.c: remove redundant include
lib/nlattr.c: remove redundant include
lib/kobject_uevent.c: remove redundant include
lib/llist.c: remove redundant include
lib/md5.c: simplify include
lib/list_sort.c: rearrange includes
lib/genalloc.c: remove redundant include
lib/idr.c: remove redundant include
lib/halfmd4.c: simplify includes
lib/dynamic_queue_limits.c: simplify includes
lib/sort.c: use simpler includes
lib/interval_tree.c: simplify includes
hexdump: make it return number of bytes placed in buffer
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 37 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index cf8fc2f0b34b..a07ba61662ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE smaps a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of each mapping and flags associated with it + numa_maps an extension based on maps, showing the memory locality and + binding policy as well as mem usage (in pages) of each mapping. .............................................................................. For example, to get the status information of a process, all you have to do is @@ -489,12 +491,47 @@ To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process To clear the soft-dirty bit > echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs +To reset the peak resident set size ("high water mark") to the process's +current value: + > echo 5 > /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. +The /proc/pid/numa_maps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory +locality and binding policy, as well as the memory usage (in pages) of +each mapping. The output follows a general format where mapping details get +summarized separated by blank spaces, one mapping per each file line: + +address policy mapping details + +00400000 default file=/usr/local/bin/app mapped=1 active=0 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +00600000 default file=/usr/local/bin/app anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +3206000000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.12.so mapped=26 mapmax=6 N0=24 N3=2 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +320621f000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.12.so anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +3206220000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.12.so anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +3206221000 default anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +3206800000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so mapped=59 mapmax=21 active=55 N0=41 N3=18 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +320698b000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so +3206b8a000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so anon=2 dirty=2 N3=2 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +3206b8e000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +3206b8f000 default anon=3 dirty=3 active=1 N3=3 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +7f4dc10a2000 default anon=3 dirty=3 N3=3 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +7f4dc10b4000 default anon=2 dirty=2 active=1 N3=2 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +7f4dc1200000 default file=/anon_hugepage\040(deleted) huge anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=2048 +7fff335f0000 default stack anon=3 dirty=3 N3=3 kernelpagesize_kB=4 +7fff3369d000 default mapped=1 mapmax=35 active=0 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4 + +Where: +"address" is the starting address for the mapping; +"policy" reports the NUMA memory policy set for the mapping (see vm/numa_memory_policy.txt); +"mapping details" summarizes mapping data such as mapping type, page usage counters, +node locality page counters (N0 == node0, N1 == node1, ...) and the kernel page +size, in KB, that is backing the mapping up. + 1.2 Kernel data --------------- |