RE: [PATCH] docs: add VmPMD description in proc

From: Chen, Hanxiao
Date: Fri Apr 24 2015 - 02:56:22 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirill A. Shutemov [mailto:kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 2:33 PM
> To: Chen, Hanxiao/陈 晗霄
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet; linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> Kirill A. Shutemov
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: add VmPMD description in proc
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:24:32AM -0400, Chen Hanxiao wrote:
> > commit dc6c9a35b66b ("mm: account pmd page tables to the process")
> > add VmPMD in /proc/PID/status.
> > This patch add a description in proc.txt for it.
> >
> > cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> > index c3b6b30..e8aba97 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> > @@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 3.20.0)
> > VmExe size of text segment
> > VmLib size of shared library code
> > VmPTE size of page table entries
> > + VmPMD size of page middle directory
>
> size of second level page tables
>
> ?

For we may have various page levels,
'second level' is more accurate than 'middle'.

Thanks for the review.
v2 will come soon.

Regards,
- Chen

>
> > VmSwap size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents)
> > Threads number of threads
> > SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue
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