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New: proc(5) man page says that VmallocUsed is not calculated, but it is calculated for me

Bug 217164 [email protected] 1 participant 4 messages Mar 8, 2023 – May 19, 2023 Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217164

Bug ID: 217164
Summary: proc(5) man page says that VmallocUsed is not
calculated, but it is calculated for me
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Regression: No

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html says the following:

VmallocUsed %lu
Amount of vmalloc area which is used. Since Linux 4.4, this field is no longer calculated, and is hard coded as 0. See /proc/vmallocinfo.

However, this was changed in 5.3 in
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/97105f0ab7b877a8ece2005e214894e93793950c.

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[Bug 217164] proc(5) man page says that VmallocUsed is not calculated despite being calculated

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217164

Konrad Borowski ([email protected]) changed:

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            Summary|proc(5) man page says that  |proc(5) man page says that
                   |VmallocUsed is not          |VmallocUsed is not
                   |calculated, but it is       |calculated despite being
                   |calculated for me           |calculated
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[Bug 217164] proc(5) man page says that VmallocUsed is not calculated despite being calculated

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--- Comment #1 from Alejandro Colomar ([email protected]) --- Could you please send a patch according to the ./CONTRIBUTING file in the repo?

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[Bug 217164] proc(5) man page says that VmallocUsed is not calculated despite being calculated

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Alejandro Colomar ([email protected]) changed:

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Status|NEW |NEEDINFO

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