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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index b7e3147ba3d4..0b86a8022fa1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -61,19 +61,6 @@ Preface 0.1 Introduction/Credits ------------------------ -This documentation is part of a soon (or so we hope) to be released book on -the SuSE Linux distribution. As there is no complete documentation for the -/proc file system and we've used many freely available sources to write these -chapters, it seems only fair to give the work back to the Linux community. -This work is based on the 2.2.* kernel version and the upcoming 2.4.*. I'm -afraid it's still far from complete, but we hope it will be useful. As far as -we know, it is the first 'all-in-one' document about the /proc file system. It -is focused on the Intel x86 hardware, so if you are looking for PPC, ARM, -SPARC, AXP, etc., features, you probably won't find what you are looking for. -It also only covers IPv4 networking, not IPv6 nor other protocols - sorry. But -additions and patches are welcome and will be added to this document if you -mail them to Bodo. - We'd like to thank Alan Cox, Rik van Riel, and Alexey Kuznetsov and a lot of other people for help compiling this documentation. We'd also like to extend a special thank you to Andi Kleen for documentation, which we relied on heavily @@ -81,17 +68,9 @@ to create this document, as well as the additional information he provided. Thanks to everybody else who contributed source or docs to the Linux kernel and helped create a great piece of software... :) -If you have any comments, corrections or additions, please don't hesitate to -contact Bodo Bauer at bb@ricochet.net. We'll be happy to add them to this -document. - The latest version of this document is available online at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/proc.html -If the above direction does not works for you, you could try the kernel -mailing list at linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org and/or try to reach me at -comandante@zaralinux.com. - 0.2 Legal Stuff --------------- @@ -291,8 +270,9 @@ It's slow but very precise. HugetlbPages size of hugetlb memory portions CoreDumping process's memory is currently being dumped (killing the process may lead to a corrupted core) - THP_enabled process is allowed to use THP (returns 0 when - PR_SET_THP_DISABLE is set on the process + THP_enabled process is allowed to use THP (returns 0 when + PR_SET_THP_DISABLE is set on the process to disable + THP completely, not just partially) Threads number of threads SigQ number of signals queued/max. number for queue SigPnd bitmap of pending signals for the thread @@ -1008,6 +988,19 @@ number, module (if originates from a loadable module) and the function calling the allocation. The number of bytes allocated and number of calls at each location are reported. The first line indicates the version of the file, the second line is the header listing fields in the file. +If file version is 2.0 or higher then each line may contain additional +<key>:<value> pairs representing extra information about the call site. +For example if the counters are not accurate, the line will be appended with +"accurate:no" pair. + +Supported markers in v2: +accurate:no + + Absolute values of the counters in this line are not accurate + because of the failure to allocate memory to track some of the + allocations made at this location. Deltas in these counters are + accurate, therefore counters can be used to track allocation size + and count changes. Example output. @@ -2166,6 +2159,20 @@ DMA Buffer files where 'size' is the size of the DMA buffer in bytes. 'count' is the file count of the DMA buffer file. 'exp_name' is the name of the DMA buffer exporter. +VFIO Device files +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + pos: 0 + flags: 02000002 + mnt_id: 17 + ino: 5122 + vfio-device-syspath: /sys/devices/pci0000:e0/0000:e0:01.1/0000:e1:00.0/0000:e2:05.0/0000:e8:00.0 + +where 'vfio-device-syspath' is the sysfs path corresponding to the VFIO device +file. + 3.9 /proc/<pid>/map_files - Information about memory mapped files --------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory contains symbolic links which represent memory mapped files |