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@@ -961,13 +961,14 @@ Provides information about memory allocations at all locations in the code
base. Each allocation in the code is identified by its source file, line
number, module (if originates from a loadable module) and the function calling
the allocation. The number of bytes allocated and number of calls at each
-location are reported.
+location are reported. The first line indicates the version of the file, the
+second line is the header listing fields in the file.
Example output.
::
- > sort -rn /proc/allocinfo
+ > tail -n +3 /proc/allocinfo | sort -rn
127664128 31168 mm/page_ext.c:270 func:alloc_page_ext
56373248 4737 mm/slub.c:2259 func:alloc_slab_page
14880768 3633 mm/readahead.c:247 func:page_cache_ra_unbounded