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Commit 30934843 authored by Vincent Whitchurch's avatar Vincent Whitchurch Committed by akpm
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mm/smaps: add Pss_Dirty



Pss is the sum of the sizes of clean and dirty private pages, and the
proportional sizes of clean and dirty shared pages:

 Private = Private_Dirty + Private_Clean
 Shared_Proportional = Shared_Dirty_Proportional + Shared_Clean_Proportional
 Pss = Private + Shared_Proportional

The Shared*Proportional fields are not present in smaps, so it is not
always possible to determine how much of the Pss is from dirty pages and
how much is from clean pages.  This information can be useful for
measuring memory usage for the purpose of optimisation, since clean pages
can usually be discarded by the kernel immediately while dirty pages
cannot.

The smaps routines in the kernel already have access to this data, so add
a Pss_Dirty to show it to userspace.  Pss_Clean is not added since it can
be calculated from Pss and Pss_Dirty.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220620081251.2928103-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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