Re: [PATCH 1/1] fixup: alloc_tag: mark inaccurate allocation counters in /proc/allocinfo output
From: Usama Arif
Date: Tue Sep 16 2025 - 16:51:04 EST
On 16/09/2025 17:01, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> Document new "accurate:no" marker.
>
> Fixes: 39d117e04d15 ("alloc_tag: mark inaccurate allocation counters in /proc/allocinfo output")
> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Based on mm-new
>
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> index 1776a06571c2..17668f82ff1c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> @@ -1014,6 +1014,14 @@ If file version is 2.0 or higher then each line may contain additional
> For example if the counters are not accurate, the line will be appended with
> "accurate:no" pair.
>
> +Supported markers in v2:
> +accurate:no
> + Absolute values of the counters in this line are not
s/values/value/ maybe? :)> + accurate because of the failure to allocate storage required
s/storage required/memory/
> + to track some of the allocations made at this location.
> + Deltas in these counters are accurate, therefore counters
> + can be used to track allocation size and count changes.
> +
> Example output.
>
> ::
>
> base-commit: 199236646ffd82b5a5bcf2bca1579ea06cb0ae74