Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932999Ab3GLLie (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 07:38:34 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f43.google.com ([209.85.160.43]:55407 "EHLO mail-pb0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932805Ab3GLLid (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 07:38:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:08:32 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: shmem info issue From: naveen yadav To: kernelnewbies , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1047 Lines: 32 Hi All I am working on tmpfs. During code analysis I found shmem driver register itself as tmpfs . cat /proc/meminfo Shmem field read NR_SHMEM enum filed and shows used memory in tmpfs [root@localhost linux-3.8.2]# cat /proc/meminfo | grep -r Shmem Shmem: 704 kB [root@localhost linux-3.8.2]# include/linux/mmzone.h enum zone_stat_item { -----cut here------- NR_SHMEM, /* shmem pages (included tmpfs/GEM pages -----cut here } I have the following query 1-> cat /proc/meminfo | grep -r Shmem show only the used tmpfs memory or it show used tmpfs memory + mata data also (because I found Shmem is bit larger then tempfs used memory ) 2-> as per the developer comments NR_SHMEM included tmpfs and GEM pages whct is Gem pages 3-> is my above code analysis is correct? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/