kernel.git/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, branch linux-4.12.y

proc: show MADV_FREE pages info in smaps

2017-05-03T22:52:08Z

Show MADV_FREE pages info of each vma in smaps. The interface is for diganose or monitoring purpose, userspace could use it to understand what happens in the application. Since userspace could dirty MADV_FREE pages without notice from kernel, this interface is the only place we can get accurate accounting info about MADV_FREE pages. [mhocko@kernel.org: update Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/89efde633559de1ec07444f2ef0f4963a97a2ce8.1487965799.git.shli@fb.com Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Hillf Danton Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

livepatch: add /proc//patch_state

2017-03-08T08:38:19Z

Expose the per-task patch state value so users can determine which tasks are holding up completion of a patching operation. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add VmPin

2017-01-25T00:26:14Z

Commit bc3e53f682d9 ("mm: distinguish between mlocked and pinned pages") added VmPin in /proc//status. Report that in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Also move Umask after Name to keep correct order. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170114201219.30387-1-fabf@skynet.be Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2016-12-13T05:58:13Z

Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "These are the documentation changes for 4.10. It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion continues. Highlights include: - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but should be more solid now. - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and integrated. - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more source-friendly versions. - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of various files discussed at the kernel summit. - New documentation for the device_link mechanism. ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates" * tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst Update Documentation/00-INDEX docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation core-api: remove an unexpected unident ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction" Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image ...

proc: report no_new_privs state

2016-12-13T02:55:09Z

Similar to being able to examine if a process has been correctly confined with seccomp, the state of no_new_privs is equally interesting, so this adds it to /proc/$pid/status. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161103214041.GA58566@beast Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Jann Horn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Rodrigo Freire Cc: John Stultz Cc: Ross Zwisler Cc: Robert Ho Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Change the document about iowait

2016-11-19T17:38:58Z

The iowait is not reliable by reading from /proc/stat, so this method to get iowait is not suggested. And we mark it in the document. Signed-off-by: Cao Jin Signed-off-by: Chao Fan Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks

2016-10-20T07:21:41Z

This reverts more of: b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc//maps") ... which was partially reverted by: 65376df58217 ("proc: revert /proc//maps [stack:TID] annotation") Originally, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps was the same as /proc/TID/maps. In current kernels, /proc/PID/maps (or /proc/TID/maps even for threads) shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack address range. In contrast, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps uses KSTK_ESP to guess the target thread's stack's VMA. This is racy, probably returns garbage and, on arches with CONFIG_TASK_INFO_IN_THREAD=y, is also crash-prone: KSTK_ESP is not safe to use on tasks that aren't known to be running ordinary process-context kernel code. This patch removes the difference and just shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack range. This is IMO much more sensible -- the actual "stack" address really is treated specially by the VM code, and the current thread stack isn't even well-defined for programs that frequently switch stacks on their own. Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux API Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tycho Andersen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3e678474ec14e0a0ec34c611016753eea2e1b8ba.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add more description for maps/smaps

2016-10-08T01:46:30Z

Add some more description on the limitations for smaps/maps readings, as well as some guaruntees we can make. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475296958-27652-2-git-send-email-robert.hu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Robert Ho Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Robert Hu Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Gleb Natapov Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Ross Zwisler Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/filesystems: Fixed typo

2016-09-16T15:51:34Z

Fixed a -> an typo. Signed-off-by: Robert Foss Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

thp: update Documentation/{vm/transhuge,filesystems/proc}.txt

2016-07-26T23:19:19Z

Add info about tmpfs/shmem with huge pages. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-38-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds