From 03f890f8c2f5c9008d3d8f6d85267717ced4bd79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikanth Karthikesan Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:34:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] /proc/pid/pagemap: document in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Document /proc/pid/pagemap in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan Cc: Richard Guenther Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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 --------------- -- 2.20.1