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author | Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> | 2015-02-12 15:01:05 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -0800 |
commit | 0c3697118bb4f0991b11dafea038e4457813cae0 (patch) | |
tree | aeba873b316f0b0630072c612db385e44a53fdc1 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
parent | 6bee55f94f971ccf87c8c95c10fa1047ade0f122 (diff) | |
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add /proc/pid/numa_maps interface explanation snippet
Add a small section to proc.txt doc in order to document its
/proc/pid/numa_maps interface. It does not introduce any functional
changes, just documentation.
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 0b3448dba9ec..ff3eb2380831 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc stack Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE smaps a extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of each mapping and flags associated with it + numa_maps an extension based on maps, showing the memory locality and + binding policy as well as mem usage (in pages) of each mapping. .............................................................................. For example, to get the status information of a process, all you have to do is @@ -499,6 +501,37 @@ 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. +The /proc/pid/numa_maps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory +locality and binding policy, as well as the memory usage (in pages) of +each mapping. The output follows a general format where mapping details get +summarized separated by blank spaces, one mapping per each file line: + +address policy mapping details + +00400000 default file=/usr/local/bin/app kernelpagesize_kB=4 mapped=1 active=0 N3=1 +00600000 default file=/usr/local/bin/app kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 +3206000000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.12.so kernelpagesize_kB=4 mapped=26 mapmax=6 N0=24 N3=2 +320621f000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.12.so kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 +3206220000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.12.so kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 +3206221000 default kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 +3206800000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so kernelpagesize_kB=4 mapped=59 mapmax=21 active=55 N0=41 N3=18 +320698b000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so +3206b8a000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=2 dirty=2 N3=2 +3206b8e000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 +3206b8f000 default kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=3 dirty=3 active=1 N3=3 +7f4dc10a2000 default kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=3 dirty=3 N3=3 +7f4dc10b4000 default kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=2 dirty=2 active=1 N3=2 +7f4dc1200000 default file=/anon_hugepage\040(deleted) huge kernelpagesize_kB=2048 anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 +7fff335f0000 default stack kernelpagesize_kB=4 anon=3 dirty=3 N3=3 +7fff3369d000 default kernelpagesize_kB=4 mapped=1 mapmax=35 active=0 N3=1 + +Where: +"address" is the starting address for the mapping; +"policy" reports the NUMA memory policy set for the mapping (see vm/numa_memory_policy.txt); +"mapping details" summarizes mapping data such as mapping type, page usage counters, +node locality page counters (N0 == node0, N1 == node1, ...) and the kernel page +size, in KB, that is backing the mapping up. + 1.2 Kernel data --------------- |