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Luigi Semenzato
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Report separate components (anon, file, and shmem) for PSS in smaps_rollup. This helps understand and tune the memory manager behavior in consumer devices, particularly mobile devices. Many of them (e.g. chromebooks and Android-based devices) use zram for anon memory, and perform disk reads for discarded file pages. The difference in latency is large (e.g. reading a single page from SSD is 30 times slower than decompressing a zram page on one popular device), thus it is useful to know how much of the PSS is anon vs. file. All the information is already present in /proc/pid/smaps, but much more expensive to obtain because of the large size of that procfs entry. This patch also removes a small code duplication in smaps_account, which would have gotten worse otherwise. Also updated Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt (the smaps section was a bit stale, and I added a smaps_rollup section) and Documentation/ABI/testing/procfs-smaps_rollup. [semenzato@chromium.org: v5] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626234333.44608-1-semenzato@chromium.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626180429.174569-1-semenzato@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@chromium.org> Acked-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@chromium.org> Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@chromium.org> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.