2.6.9-rc1-bk19

 Documentation

 filesystems

diff -Nru a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt   2004-08-23 01:14:33 -07:00
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt   2004-09-07 23:33:15 -07:00
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 afraid it's still far from complete, but we  hope it will be useful. As far as
 we know, it is the first 'all-in-one' document about the /proc file system. It
 is focused  on the Intel  x86 hardware,  so if you  are looking for  PPC, ARM,
-SPARC, APX, etc., features, you probably  won't find what you are looking for.
+SPARC, AXP, etc., features, you probably  won't find what you are looking for.
 It also only covers IPv4 networking, not IPv6 nor other protocols - sorry. But
 additions and patches  are welcome and will  be added to this  document if you
 mail them to Bodo.
@@ -169,16 +169,18 @@
 process memory usage. Its seven fields are explained in Table 1-2.
 
 
-Table 1-2: Contents of the statm files 
+Table 1-2: Contents of the statm files (as of 2.6.8-rc3)
 ..............................................................................
- File     Content                         
- size     total program size              
- resident size of memory portions         
- shared   number of pages that are shared 
- trs      number of pages that are 'code' 
- drs      number of pages of data/stack   
- lrs      number of pages of library      
- dt       number of dirty pages           
+ Field    Content
+ size     total program size (pages)      (same as VmSize in status)
+ resident size of memory portions (pages)   (same as VmRSS in status)
+ shared   number of pages that are shared   (i.e. backed by a file)
+ trs      number of pages that are 'code'   (not including libs; broken,
+                     includes data segment)
+ lrs      number of pages of library      (always 0 on 2.6)
+ drs      number of pages of data/stack      (including libs; broken,
+                     includes library text)
+ dt       number of dirty pages         (always 0 on 2.6)
 ..............................................................................
 
 1.2 Kernel data
@@ -1173,6 +1175,12 @@
 for writeout by the pdflush daemons.  It is expressed in 100'ths of a second. 
 Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be
 written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up.
+
+legacy_va_layout
+----------------
+
+If non-zero, this sysctl disables the new 32-bit mmap mmap layout - the kernel
+will use the legacy (2.4) layout for all processes.
 
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