Description of problem:

Hello,

There seems to be some problem with the consistency of the memory reporting for
a process when we use /proc/<pid/statm file, to report the memory.

The VmSize in the /proc/<pid>/status file should be excatly 4 times the first
entry in the /proc/<pid>/statm file. (Since statm reports in pages and page
size= 4Kb).

But see the following output of status and statm files on ally RHEL-3.0 platforms.

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$cat /proc/self/status

Name:	csh
State:	R (running)
Tgid:	20664
Pid:	20664
PPid:	20663
TracerPid:	0
Uid:	6207	6207	6207	6207
Gid:	30	30	30	30
FDSize:	32
Groups:	30 2034 31 
VmSize:	    5048 kB
VmLck:	       0 kB
VmRSS:	    1748 kB
VmData:	     960 kB
VmStk:	     164 kB
VmExe:	     292 kB
VmLib:	    1488 kB
SigPnd:	0000000000000000
ShdPnd:	0000000000000000
SigBlk:	0000000000010002
SigIgn:	0000000000384004
SigCgt:	0000000009812003
CapInh:	0000000000000000
CapPrm:	0000000000000000
CapEff:	0000000000000000


$cat /proc/self/statm
437 437 245 71 20 346 0

In the above RSS size turns out to be the same but VmSize i.e size varies.

Also found a bug in proc documentation, it says the order of the fields in
/proc/<pid>/statm file is 

size
resident
share
trs
drs
lrs
dt

when I checked up in fs/proc/array.c its printed in the order

size
resident
share
trs
lrs
drs
dt



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

$uname --all

Linux  2.4.21-32.ELhugemem #1 SMP Fri Apr 15 21:04:31 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux


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Actual results:
o Inconsistent VMSIZE when we read from /proc/<pid>/status and /proc/<pid>/statm/

Expected results:

o Both the VmSize in status file and statm file should be the same.

Please let us know what excatly is the actual VmSize.

Best Regards
Vamsi kundeti