Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] smaps: fill missing fields for vma(VM_HUGETLB)

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:

> > This memory was not included in rss originally because memory in the 
> > hugetlb persistent pool is always resident.  Unmapping the memory does not 
> > free memory.  For this reason, hugetlb memory has always been treated as 
> > its own type of memory.
> 
> Right, so it might be better not to use the word "RSS" for hugetlb, maybe
> something like "HugetlbPages:" seems better to me.
> 

When the pagesize is also specified, as it is in smaps, I think this would 
be the best option.  Note that we can't distinguish between variable 
hugetlb sizes with VmFlags alone.
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