From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:34:11 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: /proc/pid/pagemap: document in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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/proc/pid/pagemap: document in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 976de6e19dd8..e73df2722ff3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc
  statm		Process memory status information
  status		Process status in human readable form
  wchan		If CONFIG_KALLSYMS is set, a pre-decoded wchan
+ 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
@@ -404,6 +405,9 @@ To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process
     > echo 3 > /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
+using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using
+/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt.
 
 1.2 Kernel data
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