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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 4af0018533f2..220cc6376ef8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |||
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Table of Contents | |||
38 | 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields | 38 | 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields |
39 | 3.4 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings | 39 | 3.4 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings |
40 | 3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts | 40 | 3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts |
41 | 3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm | ||
41 | 42 | ||
42 | 43 | ||
43 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 44 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
@@ -1089,8 +1090,8 @@ The "processes" line gives the number of processes and threads created, which | |||
1089 | includes (but is not limited to) those created by calls to the fork() and | 1090 | includes (but is not limited to) those created by calls to the fork() and |
1090 | clone() system calls. | 1091 | clone() system calls. |
1091 | 1092 | ||
1092 | The "procs_running" line gives the number of processes currently running on | 1093 | The "procs_running" line gives the total number of threads that are |
1093 | CPUs. | 1094 | running or ready to run (i.e., the total number of runnable threads). |
1094 | 1095 | ||
1095 | The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked, | 1096 | The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked, |
1096 | waiting for I/O to complete. | 1097 | waiting for I/O to complete. |
@@ -1409,3 +1410,11 @@ For more information on mount propagation see: | |||
1409 | 1410 | ||
1410 | Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt | 1411 | Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt |
1411 | 1412 | ||
1413 | |||
1414 | 3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm | ||
1415 | -------------------------------------------------------- | ||
1416 | These files provide a method to access a tasks comm value. It also allows for | ||
1417 | a task to set its own or one of its thread siblings comm value. The comm value | ||
1418 | is limited in size compared to the cmdline value, so writing anything longer | ||
1419 | then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated | ||
1420 | comm value. | ||