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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup index a4e31c465194..b446a7154a1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Description: MMUPageSize: 4 kB Rss: 884 kB Pss: 385 kB + Pss_Dirty: 68 kB Pss_Anon: 301 kB Pss_File: 80 kB Pss_Shmem: 4 kB diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 8543a59f288f..0b5120ff506c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -448,6 +448,7 @@ Memory Area, or VMA) there is a series of lines such as the following:: MMUPageSize: 4 kB Rss: 892 kB Pss: 374 kB + Pss_Dirty: 0 kB Shared_Clean: 892 kB Shared_Dirty: 0 kB Private_Clean: 0 kB @@ -479,7 +480,9 @@ dirty shared and private pages in the mapping. The "proportional set size" (PSS) of a process is the count of pages it has in memory, where each page is divided by the number of processes sharing it. So if a process has 1000 pages all to itself, and 1000 shared with one other -process, its PSS will be 1500. +process, its PSS will be 1500. "Pss_Dirty" is the portion of PSS which +consists of dirty pages. ("Pss_Clean" is not included, but it can be +calculated by subtracting "Pss_Dirty" from "Pss".) 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 |