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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 40 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 3844d21d6ca3..74cb394e6888 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc pagemap Page table stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE smaps a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of - each mapping + each mapping and flags associated with it .............................................................................. For example, to get the status information of a process, all you have to do is @@ -415,8 +415,9 @@ Swap: 0 kB KernelPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB Locked: 374 kB +VmFlags: rd ex mr mw me de -The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the +the first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping (size), the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS), the process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS), the number of clean and @@ -430,6 +431,41 @@ 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. +"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: + rd - readable + wr - writeable + ex - executable + sh - shared + mr - may read + mw - may write + me - may execute + ms - may share + gd - stack segment growns down + pf - pure PFN range + dw - disabled write to the mapped file + lo - pages are locked in memory + io - memory mapped I/O area + sr - sequential read advise provided + rr - random read advise provided + dc - do not copy area on fork + de - do not expand area on remapping + ac - area is accountable + nr - swap space is not reserved for the area + ht - area uses huge tlb pages + nl - non-linear mapping + ar - architecture specific flag + dd - do not include area into core dump + mm - mixed map area + hg - huge page advise flag + nh - no-huge page advise flag + mg - mergable advise flag + +Note that there is no guarantee that every flag and associated mnemonic will +be present in all further kernel releases. Things get changed, the flags may +be vanished or the reverse -- new added. + This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is enabled. |