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| author | Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> | 2010-10-27 15:34:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-27 18:03:13 -0700 |
| commit | 03f890f8c2f5c9008d3d8f6d85267717ced4bd79 (patch) | |
| tree | 0e61bcc8e94152ef85ccb402868966adb8d44c40 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | b40d4f84becd69275451baee7f0801c85eb58437 (diff) | |
/proc/pid/pagemap: document in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 976de6e19dd..e73df2722ff 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 @@ -404,6 +405,9 @@ 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 --------------- |