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Commit 86207d9a authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs/vm: pagemap: formatting and spelling updates

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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ There are four components to pagemap:
 * ``/proc/pid/pagemap``.  This file lets a userspace process find out which
   physical frame each virtual page is mapped to.  It contains one 64-bit
   value for each virtual page, containing the following data (from
   fs/proc/task_mmu.c, above pagemap_read):
   ``fs/proc/task_mmu.c``, above pagemap_read):

    * Bits 0-54  page frame number (PFN) if present
    * Bits 0-4   swap type if swapped
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ There are four components to pagemap:
   precisely which pages are mapped (or in swap) and comparing mapped
   pages between processes.

   Efficient users of this interface will use /proc/pid/maps to
   Efficient users of this interface will use ``/proc/pid/maps`` to
   determine which areas of memory are actually mapped and llseek to
   skip over unmapped regions.

@@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ There are four components to pagemap:
   memory cgroup each page is charged to, indexed by PFN. Only available when
   CONFIG_MEMCG is set.

Short descriptions to the page flags:
=====================================
Short descriptions to the page flags
====================================

0 - LOCKED
   page is being locked for exclusive access, eg. by undergoing read/write IO
   page is being locked for exclusive access, e.g. by undergoing read/write IO
7 - SLAB
   page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator
   When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ IO related page flags
   ie. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision >= on-disk one)
4 - DIRTY
   page has been written to, hence contains new data
   ie. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision >  on-disk one)
   i.e. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision >  on-disk one)
8 - WRITEBACK
   page is being synced to disk

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ LRU related page flags
   page is in the active LRU list
18 - UNEVICTABLE
   page is in the unevictable (non-)LRU list It is somehow pinned and
   not a candidate for LRU page reclaims, eg. ramfs pages,
   not a candidate for LRU page reclaims, e.g. ramfs pages,
   shmctl(SHM_LOCK) and mlock() memory segments
2 - REFERENCED
   page has been referenced since last LRU list enqueue/requeue
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ LRU related page flags
12 - ANON
   a memory mapped page that is not part of a file
13 - SWAPCACHE
   page is mapped to swap space, ie. has an associated swap entry
   page is mapped to swap space, i.e. has an associated swap entry
14 - SWAPBACKED
   page is backed by swap/RAM