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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-28 05:42:52 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-28 05:42:52 +0400
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@@ -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
@@ -370,6 +371,7 @@ Shared_Dirty: 0 kB
Private_Clean: 0 kB
Private_Dirty: 0 kB
Referenced: 892 kB
+Anonymous: 0 kB
Swap: 0 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
@@ -378,9 +380,15 @@ The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the
mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping
(size), the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS), the
process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and
-dirty shared pages in the mapping, and the number of clean and dirty private
-pages in the mapping. The "Referenced" indicates the amount of memory
-currently marked as referenced or accessed.
+dirty private pages in the mapping. Note that even a page which is part of a
+MAP_SHARED mapping, but has only a single pte mapped, i.e. is currently used
+by only one process, is accounted as private and not as shared. "Referenced"
+indicates the amount of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed.
+"Anonymous" shows the amount of memory that does not belong to any file. Even
+a mapping associated with a file may contain anonymous pages: when MAP_PRIVATE
+and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy.
+"Swap" shows how much would-be-anonymous memory is also used, but out on
+swap.
This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is
enabled.
@@ -397,6 +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
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