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authorMinto Joseph <mvaliyav@redhat.com>2013-09-11 14:24:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-11 15:59:03 -0700
commit4649602265495a3bb776d777c91dba569f4afb5d (patch)
treeba4f73203d6e992b917d4d3614439e9ff88f9a9d /Documentation
parentbe49b30a98fe7e20f898fcfe7b6c082700fb96e8 (diff)
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: fix mistake in the description of Committed_AS
Fix mistake in the description of Committed_AS in kernel documentation. Signed-off-by: Minto Joseph <mvaliyav@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index fcc22c982a25..823c95faebd2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -854,16 +854,15 @@ Committed_AS: The amount of memory presently allocated on the system.
The committed memory is a sum of all of the memory which
has been allocated by processes, even if it has not been
"used" by them as of yet. A process which malloc()'s 1G
- of memory, but only touches 300M of it will only show up
- as using 300M of memory even if it has the address space
- allocated for the entire 1G. This 1G is memory which has
- been "committed" to by the VM and can be used at any time
- by the allocating application. With strict overcommit
- enabled on the system (mode 2 in 'vm.overcommit_memory'),
- allocations which would exceed the CommitLimit (detailed
- above) will not be permitted. This is useful if one needs
- to guarantee that processes will not fail due to lack of
- memory once that memory has been successfully allocated.
+ of memory, but only touches 300M of it will show up as
+ using 1G. This 1G is memory which has been "committed" to
+ by the VM and can be used at any time by the allocating
+ application. With strict overcommit enabled on the system
+ (mode 2 in 'vm.overcommit_memory'),allocations which would
+ exceed the CommitLimit (detailed above) will not be permitted.
+ This is useful if one needs to guarantee that processes will
+ not fail due to lack of memory once that memory has been
+ successfully allocated.
VmallocTotal: total size of vmalloc memory area
VmallocUsed: amount of vmalloc area which is used
VmallocChunk: largest contiguous block of vmalloc area which is free