* [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@ 2012-11-16 7:01 ` Michael Kerrisk
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From: Michael Kerrisk @ 2012-11-16 7:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: linux-mm, lkml, linux-doc, Rob Landley, Jim Paris,
Michael Kerrisk (gmail)
After migrating most of the information in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a1793d6..cf4260f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -778,8 +778,7 @@ AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
other things, it is where everything from the Slab is
allocated. Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem.
SwapTotal: total amount of swap space available
- SwapFree: Memory which has been evicted from RAM, and is temporarily
- on the disk
+ SwapFree: Amount of swap space that is currently unused.
Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk
Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk
AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables
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* [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@ 2012-11-16 7:01 ` Michael Kerrisk
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Michael Kerrisk @ 2012-11-16 7:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: linux-mm, lkml, linux-doc, Rob Landley, Jim Paris,
Michael Kerrisk (gmail)
After migrating most of the information in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a1793d6..cf4260f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -778,8 +778,7 @@ AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
other things, it is where everything from the Slab is
allocated. Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem.
SwapTotal: total amount of swap space available
- SwapFree: Memory which has been evicted from RAM, and is temporarily
- on the disk
+ SwapFree: Amount of swap space that is currently unused.
Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk
Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk
AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables
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* Re: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
2012-11-16 7:01 ` Michael Kerrisk
@ 2012-11-16 10:10 ` Michal Hocko
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From: Michal Hocko @ 2012-11-16 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-mm, lkml, linux-doc, Rob Landley, Jim Paris
On Fri 16-11-12 08:01:42, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> After migrating most of the information in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
> Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
> in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
> but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
> Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
Yes, this goes back to 2003 when the /proc/meminfo doc has been added.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> index a1793d6..cf4260f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> @@ -778,8 +778,7 @@ AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
> other things, it is where everything from the Slab is
> allocated. Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem.
> SwapTotal: total amount of swap space available
> - SwapFree: Memory which has been evicted from RAM, and is temporarily
> - on the disk
> + SwapFree: Amount of swap space that is currently unused.
> Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk
> Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk
> AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables
>
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* Re: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@ 2012-11-16 10:10 ` Michal Hocko
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2012-11-16 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-mm, lkml, linux-doc, Rob Landley, Jim Paris
On Fri 16-11-12 08:01:42, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> After migrating most of the information in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
> Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
> in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
> but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
> Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
Yes, this goes back to 2003 when the /proc/meminfo doc has been added.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> index a1793d6..cf4260f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> @@ -778,8 +778,7 @@ AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
> other things, it is where everything from the Slab is
> allocated. Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem.
> SwapTotal: total amount of swap space available
> - SwapFree: Memory which has been evicted from RAM, and is temporarily
> - on the disk
> + SwapFree: Amount of swap space that is currently unused.
> Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk
> Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk
> AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables
>
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* Re: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
2012-11-16 7:01 ` Michael Kerrisk
@ 2012-11-16 10:16 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
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From: Kamezawa Hiroyuki @ 2012-11-16 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-mm, lkml, linux-doc, Rob Landley, Jim Paris
(2012/11/16 16:01), Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> After migrating most of the information in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
> Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
> in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
> but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
> Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> index a1793d6..cf4260f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> @@ -778,8 +778,7 @@ AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
> other things, it is where everything from the Slab is
> allocated. Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem.
> SwapTotal: total amount of swap space available
> - SwapFree: Memory which has been evicted from RAM, and is temporarily
> - on the disk
> + SwapFree: Amount of swap space that is currently unused.
> Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk
> Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk
> AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables
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* Re: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@ 2012-11-16 10:16 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
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From: Kamezawa Hiroyuki @ 2012-11-16 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-mm, lkml, linux-doc, Rob Landley, Jim Paris
(2012/11/16 16:01), Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> After migrating most of the information in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
> Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
> in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
> but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
> Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> index a1793d6..cf4260f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> @@ -778,8 +778,7 @@ AnonHugePages: 49152 kB
> other things, it is where everything from the Slab is
> allocated. Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem.
> SwapTotal: total amount of swap space available
> - SwapFree: Memory which has been evicted from RAM, and is temporarily
> - on the disk
> + SwapFree: Amount of swap space that is currently unused.
> Dirty: Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk
> Writeback: Memory which is actively being written back to the disk
> AnonPages: Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables
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* Re: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
2012-11-16 7:01 ` Michael Kerrisk
@ 2012-11-17 5:11 ` Rob Landley
-1 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Rob Landley @ 2012-11-17 5:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-mm, lkml, linux-doc, Jim Paris,
Michael Kerrisk (gmail)
On 11/16/2012 01:01:42 AM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> After migrating most of the information in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
> Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
> in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
> but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
> Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Want me to forward it on? (Lots of documentation stuff gets grabbed by
whoever maintains what it's documenting, this looks like it might fall
through the cracks...)
Rob
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* Re: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@ 2012-11-17 5:11 ` Rob Landley
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Rob Landley @ 2012-11-17 5:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Kerrisk; +Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-mm, lkml, linux-doc, Jim Paris
On 11/16/2012 01:01:42 AM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> After migrating most of the information in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
> Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
> in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
> but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
> Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Want me to forward it on? (Lots of documentation stuff gets grabbed by
whoever maintains what it's documenting, this looks like it might fall
through the cracks...)
Rob
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* Re: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
2012-11-17 5:11 ` Rob Landley
@ 2012-11-19 6:07 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2012-11-19 6:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rob Landley; +Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-mm, lkml, linux-doc, Jim Paris
Rob,
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> On 11/16/2012 01:01:42 AM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>>
>> After migrating most of the information in
>> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
>> Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
>> in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
>> but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
>> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
>> Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
>
>
> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
>
> Want me to forward it on? (Lots of documentation stuff gets grabbed by
> whoever maintains what it's documenting, this looks like it might fall
> through the cracks...)
That would be great.
Thanks,
Michael
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Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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* Re: [PATCH] Correct description of SwapFree in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@ 2012-11-19 6:07 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2012-11-19 6:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rob Landley; +Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-mm, lkml, linux-doc, Jim Paris
Rob,
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> On 11/16/2012 01:01:42 AM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>>
>> After migrating most of the information in
>> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt to the proc(5) man page,
>> Jim Paris pointed out to me that the description of SwapFree
>> in the man page seemed wrong. I think Jim is right,
>> but am given pause by fact that that text has been in
>> Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt since at least 2.6.0.
>> Anyway, I believe that the patch below fixes things.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
>
>
> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
>
> Want me to forward it on? (Lots of documentation stuff gets grabbed by
> whoever maintains what it's documenting, this looks like it might fall
> through the cracks...)
That would be great.
Thanks,
Michael
--
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Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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