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Commit 15eb42d6 authored by Nathan Scott's avatar Nathan Scott Committed by Linus Torvalds
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docs: add missing and new /proc/PID/status file entries, fix typos 



docs: add missing and new /proc/PID/status file entries, fix typos

Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Scott <nathans@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6da7bb1e

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

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@@ -200,12 +200,12 @@ contains details information about the process itself. Its fields are 
explained in Table 1-4.



(for SMP CONFIG users)

For making accounting scalable, RSS related information are handled in

asynchronous manner and the vaule may not be very precise. To see a precise

For making accounting scalable, RSS related information are handled in an

asynchronous manner and the value may not be very precise. To see a precise

snapshot of a moment, you can see /proc/<pid>/smaps file and scan page table.

It's slow but very precise.



Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7)

Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 3.20.0)

..............................................................................

 Field                       Content

 Name                        filename of the executable
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) 
                             in an uninterruptible wait, Z is zombie,

			     T is traced or stopped)

 Tgid                        thread group ID

 Ngid                        NUMA group ID (0 if none)

 Pid                         process id

 PPid                        process id of the parent process

 TracerPid                   PID of process tracing this process (0 if not)
@@ -220,6 +221,10 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) 
 Gid                         Real, effective, saved set, and  file system GIDs

 FDSize                      number of file descriptor slots currently allocated

 Groups                      supplementary group list

 NStgid                      descendant namespace thread group ID hierarchy

 NSpid                       descendant namespace process ID hierarchy

 NSpgid                      descendant namespace process group ID hierarchy

 NSsid                       descendant namespace session ID hierarchy

 VmPeak                      peak virtual memory size

 VmSize                      total program size

 VmLck                       locked memory size