[PATCH] oom_adj/oom_score documentation

I was looking for the a way around an OOM-problem, and found a couple of
undocumented new features for tuning the OOM-score of individual processes.
 Here's a small documentation patch for /proc/<pid>/oom_adj and
/proc/<pid>/oom_score.

Signed-off-by: Jan-Frode Myklebust <mykleb@no.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 7db71d6fba82..7240ee7515de 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ Table of Contents
   2.9   Appletalk
   2.10  IPX
   2.11  /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem
+  2.12  /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score
+  2.13  /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score
 
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 Preface
@@ -1962,6 +1964,22 @@ a queue must be less or equal then msg_max.
 maximum  message size value (it is every  message queue's attribute set during
 its creation).
 
+2.12 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score
+------------------------------------------------------
+
+This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes
+should be killed in an  out-of-memory  situation.  Giving it a high score will
+increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer.  Valid
+values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which disables
+oom-killing altogether for this process.
+
+2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for
+any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_adj to tune which
+process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation.
 
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