+ docs-procrst-meminfo-briefly-describe-gaps-in-memory-accounting.patch added to -mm tree

+ docs-procrst-meminfo-briefly-describe-gaps-in-memory-accounting.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: docs: proc.rst: meminfo: briefly describe gaps in memory accounting
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     docs-procrst-meminfo-briefly-describe-gaps-in-memory-accounting.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/docs-procrst-meminfo-briefly-describe-gaps-in-memory-accounting.patch
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    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/docs-procrst-meminfo-briefly-describe-gaps-in-memory-accounting.patch

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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: docs: proc.rst: meminfo: briefly describe gaps in memory accounting

Add a paragraph that explains that it may happen that the counters in
/proc/meminfo do not add up to the overall memory usage.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421061127.1182723-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst~docs-procrst-meminfo-briefly-describe-gaps-in-memory-accounting
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -933,8 +933,15 @@ meminfo
 ~~~~~~~
 
 Provides information about distribution and utilization of memory.  This
-varies by architecture and compile options.  The following is from a
-16GB PIII, which has highmem enabled.  You may not have all of these fields.
+varies by architecture and compile options.  Some of the counters reported
+here overlap.  The memory reported by the non overlapping counters may not
+add up to the overall memory usage and the difference for some workloads
+can be substantial.  In many cases there are other means to find out
+additional memory using subsystem specific interfaces, for instance
+/proc/net/sockstat for TCP memory allocations.
+
+The following is from a 16GB PIII, which has highmem enabled.
+You may not have all of these fields.
 
 ::
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from rppt@linux.ibm.com are

mm-mmzoneh-simplify-is_highmem_idx.patch
docs-procrst-meminfo-briefly-describe-gaps-in-memory-accounting.patch
mmap-make-mlock_future_check-global.patch
riscv-kconfig-make-direct-map-manipulation-options-depend-on-mmu.patch
set_memory-allow-set_direct_map__noflush-for-multiple-pages.patch
set_memory-allow-querying-whether-set_direct_map_-is-actually-enabled.patch
mm-introduce-memfd_secret-system-call-to-create-secret-memory-areas.patch
mm-introduce-memfd_secret-system-call-to-create-secret-memory-areas-fix.patch
mm-introduce-memfd_secret-system-call-to-create-secret-memory-areas-fix-2.patch
mm-introduce-memfd_secret-system-call-to-create-secret-memory-areas-fix-3.patch
pm-hibernate-disable-when-there-are-active-secretmem-users.patch
arch-mm-wire-up-memfd_secret-system-call-where-relevant.patch
arch-mm-wire-up-memfd_secret-system-call-where-relevant-fix.patch
secretmem-test-add-basic-selftest-for-memfd_secret2.patch
secretmem-test-add-basic-selftest-for-memfd_secret2-fix.patch