docs: proc.rst: meminfo: briefly describe gaps in memory accounting
authorMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 01:50:00 +0000 (18:50 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 03:47:28 +0000 (20:47 -0700)
commit8d719afcb34434ebfa7911338d8c777eca8452b0
tree6e71c677883e6cb656acf02bddec12868834da4b
parent781eb2cdd26f3748be57da9bed98bbe5b0dd99fb
docs: proc.rst: meminfo: briefly describe gaps in memory accounting

Add a paragraph that explains that it may happen that the counters in
/proc/meminfo do not add up to the overall memory usage.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421061127.1182723-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst