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authorPetr Cermak <petrcermak@chromium.org>2015-02-12 15:01:00 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-12 18:54:12 -0800
commit695f055936938c674473ea071ca7359a863551e7 (patch)
tree8975abce255f8d638fa1291beb62803e2d611004 /Documentation
parentd170cf4674768db22b66a1be4be7877d3b2c3874 (diff)
fs/proc/task_mmu.c: add user-space support for resetting mm->hiwater_rss (peak RSS)
Peak resident size of a process can be reset back to the process's current rss value by writing "5" to /proc/pid/clear_refs. The driving use-case for this would be getting the peak RSS value, which can be retrieved from the VmHWM field in /proc/pid/status, per benchmark iteration or test scenario. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify behaviour in documentation] Signed-off-by: Petr Cermak <petrcermak@chromium.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Primiano Tucci <primiano@chromium.org> Cc: Petr Cermak <petrcermak@chromium.org> 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/filesystems/proc.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index cf8fc2f0b34b..0b3448dba9ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -489,6 +489,10 @@ To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process
To clear the soft-dirty bit
> echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
+To reset the peak resident set size ("high water mark") to the process's
+current value:
+ > echo 5 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
+
Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect.
The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags