From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 17:52:38 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man/man5/proc_meminfo.5: Shmem also accounts for other types of shared memory
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man/man5/proc_meminfo.5: Shmem also accounts for other types of shared memory

Reported-by: Carsten Grohmann <carstengrohmann@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <20250523122617.48cf9feb@max.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/man/man5/proc_meminfo.5 b/man/man5/proc_meminfo.5
index c7d201f79..ee4ba2062 100644
--- a/man/man5/proc_meminfo.5
+++ b/man/man5/proc_meminfo.5
@@ -150,7 +150,11 @@ such as libraries.
 .IR Shmem " %lu (since Linux 2.6.32)"
 Amount of memory consumed in
 .BR tmpfs (5)
-filesystems.
+filesystems,
+System V,
+and POSIX shared memory,
+as well as shared anonymous mappings
+.RI ( MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS ).
 .TP
 .IR KReclaimable " %lu (since Linux 4.20)"
 Kernel allocations that the kernel will attempt to reclaim