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| author | Petr Cermak <petrcermak@chromium.org> | 2015-02-12 15:01:00 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -0800 |
| commit | 695f055936938c674473ea071ca7359a863551e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 8975abce255f8d638fa1291beb62803e2d611004 /Documentation | |
| parent | d170cf4674768db22b66a1be4be7877d3b2c3874 (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.
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -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 cf8fc2f0b34b..0b3448dba9ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -489,6 +489,10 @@ To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process To clear the soft-dirty bit > echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs +To reset the peak resident set size ("high water mark") to the process's +current value: + > echo 5 > /proc/PID/clear_refs + Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect. The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags |