Bug 217164

Summary: proc(5) man page says that VmallocUsed is not calculated despite being calculated
Product: Documentation Reporter: Konrad Borowski (konrad)
Component: man-pagesAssignee: documentation_man-pages (documentation_man-pages)
Status: NEEDINFO ---    
Severity: normal CC: konrad
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Konrad Borowski 2023-03-08 16:18:59 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Alejandro Colomar 2023-05-19 11:56:42 UTC 
Could you please send a patch according to the ./CONTRIBUTING file in
the repo?