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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>2015-09-09 15:35:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-10 13:29:01 -0700
commit80ae2fdceba8313b0433f899bdd9c6c463291a17 (patch)
treec8e6d0d5edcd0306ee939d3362028511e33bf97b /Documentation/vm
parente993d905c81e2c0f669f2f8e8327df86738baebe (diff)
proc: add kpagecgroup file
/proc/kpagecgroup contains a 64-bit inode number of the memory cgroup each page is charged to, indexed by PFN. Having this information is useful for estimating a cgroup working set size. The file is present if CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR && CONFIG_MEMCG. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
index 3cd38438242a..ce294b0aace4 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pagemap is a new (as of 2.6.25) set of interfaces in the kernel that allow
userspace programs to examine the page tables and related information by
reading files in /proc.
-There are three components to pagemap:
+There are four components to pagemap:
* /proc/pid/pagemap. This file lets a userspace process find out which
physical frame each virtual page is mapped to. It contains one 64-bit
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
23. BALLOON
24. ZERO_PAGE
+ * /proc/kpagecgroup. This file contains a 64-bit inode number of the
+ memory cgroup each page is charged to, indexed by PFN. Only available when
+ CONFIG_MEMCG is set.
+
Short descriptions to the page flags:
0. LOCKED