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Documentation/filesystems: describe the shared memory usage/accounting 

The Shared Memory accounting support is present in Kernel since commit
4b02108ac1 ("mm: oom analysis: add shmem vmstat") and in userland
free(1) since 2014.  This patch updates the Documentation to reflect
this change.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Freire <rfreire@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rodrigo Freire 2016-01-14 15:21:58 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6f754ba4cf
commit 0bc126d460
2 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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@ -855,6 +855,7 @@ Dirty: 968 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 861800 kB
Mapped: 280372 kB
Shmem: 644 kB
Slab: 284364 kB
SReclaimable: 159856 kB
SUnreclaim: 124508 kB
@ -911,6 +912,7 @@ MemAvailable: An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new
AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables
AnonHugePages: Non-file backed huge pages mapped into userspace page tables
Mapped: files which have been mmaped, such as libraries
Shmem: Total memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs
Slab: in-kernel data structures cache
SReclaimable: Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches
SUnreclaim: Part of Slab, that cannot be reclaimed on memory pressure

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Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
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@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ RAM, where you have to create an ordinary filesystem on top. Ramdisks
cannot swap and you do not have the possibility to resize them.
Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and on swap, all tmpfs
pages currently in memory will show up as cached. It will not show up
as shared or something like that. Further on you can check the actual
RAM+swap use of a tmpfs instance with df(1) and du(1).
pages will be shown as "Shmem" in /proc/meminfo and "Shared" in
free(1). Notice that these counters also include shared memory
(shmem, see ipcs(1)). The most reliable way to get the count is
using df(1) and du(1).
tmpfs has the following uses: