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authorChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>2011-10-31 17:07:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-10-31 17:30:46 -0700
commite10d59f2c3decaf22cc5d3de7040eba202bc2df3 (patch)
tree68a25b573ddd1701d6a50f22b26287eca8e5c1ea /include
parentbc3e53f682d93df677dbd5006a404722b3adfe18 (diff)
mm: add comments to explain mm_struct fields
Add comments to explain the page statistics field in the mm_struct. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing ;] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index f3175830cc7..3e01a19a91e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -304,8 +304,15 @@ struct mm_struct {
unsigned long hiwater_rss; /* High-watermark of RSS usage */
unsigned long hiwater_vm; /* High-water virtual memory usage */
- unsigned long total_vm, locked_vm, pinned_vm, shared_vm, exec_vm;
- unsigned long stack_vm, reserved_vm, def_flags, nr_ptes;
+ unsigned long total_vm; /* Total pages mapped */
+ unsigned long locked_vm; /* Pages that have PG_mlocked set */
+ unsigned long pinned_vm; /* Refcount permanently increased */
+ unsigned long shared_vm; /* Shared pages (files) */
+ unsigned long exec_vm; /* VM_EXEC & ~VM_WRITE */
+ unsigned long stack_vm; /* VM_GROWSUP/DOWN */
+ unsigned long reserved_vm; /* VM_RESERVED|VM_IO pages */
+ unsigned long def_flags;
+ unsigned long nr_ptes; /* Page table pages */
unsigned long start_code, end_code, start_data, end_data;
unsigned long start_brk, brk, start_stack;
unsigned long arg_start, arg_end, env_start, env_end;