mm: hugetlb: proc: add HugetlbPages field to /proc/PID/status

[linux-2.6-microblaze.git] / Documentation / filesystems / proc.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index d411ca6..12ac0e4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc
  stat          Process status
  statm         Process memory status information
  status                Process status in human readable form
- wchan         If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is set, a pre-decoded wchan
+ wchan         Present with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y: it shows the kernel function
+               symbol the task is blocked in - or "0" if not blocked.
  pagemap       Page table
  stack         Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE
  smaps         a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of
@@ -174,6 +175,7 @@ read the file /proc/PID/status:
   VmLib:      1412 kB
   VmPTE:        20 kb
   VmSwap:        0 kB
+  HugetlbPages:          0 kB
   Threads:        1
   SigQ:   0/28578
   SigPnd: 0000000000000000
@@ -237,6 +239,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1)
  VmPTE                       size of page table entries
  VmPMD                       size of second level page tables
  VmSwap                      size of swap usage (the number of referred swapents)
+ HugetlbPages                size of hugetlb memory portions
  Threads                     number of threads
  SigQ                        number of signals queued/max. number for queue
  SigPnd                      bitmap of pending signals for the thread
@@ -310,7 +313,7 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7)
   blocked       bitmap of blocked signals
   sigign        bitmap of ignored signals
   sigcatch      bitmap of caught signals
-  wchan         address where process went to sleep
+  0            (place holder, used to be the wchan address, use /proc/PID/wchan instead)
   0             (place holder)
   0             (place holder)
   exit_signal   signal to send to parent thread on exit
@@ -423,6 +426,9 @@ Private_Clean:         0 kB
 Private_Dirty:         0 kB
 Referenced:          892 kB
 Anonymous:             0 kB
+AnonHugePages:         0 kB
+Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
+Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
 Swap:                  0 kB
 SwapPss:               0 kB
 KernelPageSize:        4 kB
@@ -451,6 +457,11 @@ 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.
 "SwapPss" shows proportional swap share of this mapping.
+"AnonHugePages" shows the ammount of memory backed by transparent hugepage.
+"Shared_Hugetlb" and "Private_Hugetlb" show the ammounts of memory backed by
+hugetlbfs page which is *not* counted in "RSS" or "PSS" field for historical
+reasons. And these are not included in {Shared,Private}_{Clean,Dirty} field.
+
 "VmFlags" field deserves a separate description. This member represents the kernel
 flags associated with the particular virtual memory area in two letter encoded
 manner. The codes are the following: