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From:   Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Jul 2018 09:20:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] "Locked" and "Pss" in /proc/*/smaps are the same
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc:     Thomas Lindroth <thomas.lindroth@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:36 AM, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
> +CC
>
> On 07/01/2018 08:31 PM, Thomas Lindroth wrote:
>> While looking around in /proc on my v4.14.52 system I noticed that
>> all processes got a lot of "Locked" memory in /proc/*/smaps. A lot
>> more memory than a regular user can usually lock with mlock().
>>
>> commit 493b0e9d945fa9dfe96be93ae41b4ca4b6fdb317 (v4.14-rc1) seems
>> to have changed the behavior of "Locked".

Thanks for fixing that. I submitted a patch [1] for this bug and some
others a while ago, but the patch didn't make it into the tree because
or wasn't split up correctly or something, and I had to do other work.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=151927723128134&w=2