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author | 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -0700 | |
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committer | 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -0700 | |
commit | 71bd9341011f626d692aabe024f099820f02c497 (patch) | |
tree | a1c27fd8f17daff36e380800c5b69769d0d9cc99 /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | Merge branch 'for-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/c... (diff) | |
parent | ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"190 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (190 commits)
ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
init: print out unknown kernel parameters
checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
checkpatch: improve the indented label test
checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 48 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 81bfe3c800cc..042c418f4090 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -933,8 +933,15 @@ meminfo ~~~~~~~ Provides information about distribution and utilization of memory. This -varies by architecture and compile options. The following is from a -16GB PIII, which has highmem enabled. You may not have all of these fields. +varies by architecture and compile options. Some of the counters reported +here overlap. The memory reported by the non overlapping counters may not +add up to the overall memory usage and the difference for some workloads +can be substantial. In many cases there are other means to find out +additional memory using subsystem specific interfaces, for instance +/proc/net/sockstat for TCP memory allocations. + +The following is from a 16GB PIII, which has highmem enabled. +You may not have all of these fields. :: @@ -1913,18 +1920,20 @@ if precise results are needed. 3.8 /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file --------------------------------------------------------------- This file provides information associated with an opened file. The regular -files have at least three fields -- 'pos', 'flags' and 'mnt_id'. The 'pos' -represents the current offset of the opened file in decimal form [see lseek(2) -for details], 'flags' denotes the octal O_xxx mask the file has been -created with [see open(2) for details] and 'mnt_id' represents mount ID of -the file system containing the opened file [see 3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo -for details]. +files have at least four fields -- 'pos', 'flags', 'mnt_id' and 'ino'. +The 'pos' represents the current offset of the opened file in decimal +form [see lseek(2) for details], 'flags' denotes the octal O_xxx mask the +file has been created with [see open(2) for details] and 'mnt_id' represents +mount ID of the file system containing the opened file [see 3.5 +/proc/<pid>/mountinfo for details]. 'ino' represents the inode number of +the file. A typical output is:: pos: 0 flags: 0100002 mnt_id: 19 + ino: 63107 All locks associated with a file descriptor are shown in its fdinfo too:: @@ -1941,6 +1950,7 @@ Eventfd files pos: 0 flags: 04002 mnt_id: 9 + ino: 63107 eventfd-count: 5a where 'eventfd-count' is hex value of a counter. @@ -1953,6 +1963,7 @@ Signalfd files pos: 0 flags: 04002 mnt_id: 9 + ino: 63107 sigmask: 0000000000000200 where 'sigmask' is hex value of the signal mask associated @@ -1966,6 +1977,7 @@ Epoll files pos: 0 flags: 02 mnt_id: 9 + ino: 63107 tfd: 5 events: 1d data: ffffffffffffffff pos:0 ino:61af sdev:7 where 'tfd' is a target file descriptor number in decimal form, @@ -1982,6 +1994,8 @@ For inotify files the format is the following:: pos: 0 flags: 02000000 + mnt_id: 9 + ino: 63107 inotify wd:3 ino:9e7e sdev:800013 mask:800afce ignored_mask:0 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:7e9e0000640d1b6d where 'wd' is a watch descriptor in decimal form, i.e. a target file @@ -2004,6 +2018,7 @@ For fanotify files the format is:: pos: 0 flags: 02 mnt_id: 9 + ino: 63107 fanotify flags:10 event-flags:0 fanotify mnt_id:12 mflags:40 mask:38 ignored_mask:40000003 fanotify ino:4f969 sdev:800013 mflags:0 mask:3b ignored_mask:40000000 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:69f90400c275b5b4 @@ -2028,6 +2043,7 @@ Timerfd files pos: 0 flags: 02 mnt_id: 9 + ino: 63107 clockid: 0 ticks: 0 settime flags: 01 @@ -2042,6 +2058,22 @@ details]. 'it_value' is remaining time until the timer expiration. with TIMER_ABSTIME option which will be shown in 'settime flags', but 'it_value' still exhibits timer's remaining time. +DMA Buffer files +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + pos: 0 + flags: 04002 + mnt_id: 9 + ino: 63107 + size: 32768 + count: 2 + exp_name: system-heap + +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. + 3.9 /proc/<pid>/map_files - Information about memory mapped files --------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory contains symbolic links which represent memory mapped files |