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| author | Petr Cermak <petrcermak@chromium.org> | 2015-02-18 10:39:10 +0000 |
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| committer | JP Abgrall <jpa@google.com> | 2015-03-06 19:44:26 +0000 |
| commit | 740006ef285f77b02b016b9a21453e56db1915ed (patch) | |
| tree | d6b167ef2d4e721b75efb284446344cde50e6a0b /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 428e6d675d83323d05649d901cc0fa0069f8e825 (diff) | |
fs/proc/task_mmu.c: add user-space support for resetting mm->hiwater_rss (peak RSS)
Peak resident size of a process can be reset back to the process's
current rss value by writing "5" to /proc/pid/clear_refs. The driving
use-case for this would be getting the peak RSS value, which can be
retrieved from the VmHWM field in /proc/pid/status, per benchmark
iteration or test scenario.
Origin:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=695f055936938c674473ea071ca7359a863551e7
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify behaviour in documentation]
Signed-off-by: Petr Cermak <petrcermak@chromium.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Primiano Tucci <primiano@chromium.org>
Cc: Petr Cermak <petrcermak@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change-Id: I543a7640639d9916e813af875003fe3ee3a6bfe0
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index e0eb9d287312..22c3b9c17e5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -490,6 +490,10 @@ To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process > echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect. +To reset the peak resident set size ("high water mark") to the process's +current value: + > echo 5 > /proc/PID/clear_refs + 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. |