diff options
| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-05-29 15:06:45 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-29 16:22:23 -0700 |
| commit | 692569946fbf56fbb75d85c57679541f9a3550b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 74e8dbcec28756ef92a9782b7e17311c47b72597 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | 51300cef41c9355a7d428fe0714888d3c72a6f2f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-692569946fbf56fbb75d85c57679541f9a3550b4.tar.gz lwn-692569946fbf56fbb75d85c57679541f9a3550b4.zip | |
mm: document the meminfo and vmstat fields of relevance to transparent hugepages
Update Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt and
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt with some information on monitoring
transparent huge page usage and the associated overhead.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index ef088e55ab2e..912af6ce5626 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ Committed_AS: 100056 kB VmallocTotal: 112216 kB VmallocUsed: 428 kB VmallocChunk: 111088 kB +AnonHugePages: 49152 kB MemTotal: Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved bits and the kernel binary code) @@ -776,6 +777,7 @@ VmallocChunk: 111088 kB Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables +AnonHugePages: Non-file backed huge pages mapped into userspace page tables Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries Slab: in-kernel data structures cache SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches |