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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index ffead13f944..75988ba26a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -375,6 +375,19 @@ of memory currently marked as referenced or accessed. This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is enabled. +The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG +bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process. +To clear the bits for all the pages associated with the process + > echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs + +To clear the bits for the anonymous pages associated with the process + > echo 2 > /proc/PID/clear_refs + +To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process + > echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs +Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect. + + 1.2 Kernel data --------------- @@ -1032,9 +1045,9 @@ Various pieces of information about kernel activity are available in the since the system first booted. For a quick look, simply cat the file: > cat /proc/stat - cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0 - cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0 - cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0 + cpu 2255 34 2290 22625563 6290 127 456 0 0 + cpu0 1132 34 1441 11311718 3675 127 438 0 0 + cpu1 1123 0 849 11313845 2614 0 18 0 0 intr 114930548 113199788 3 0 5 263 0 4 [... lots more numbers ...] ctxt 1990473 btime 1062191376 @@ -1056,6 +1069,7 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right: - irq: servicing interrupts - softirq: servicing softirqs - steal: involuntary wait +- guest: running a guest The "intr" line gives counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, for each of the possible system interrupts. The first column is the total of all @@ -1191,7 +1205,7 @@ The following heuristics are then applied: * if the task was reniced, its score doubles * superuser or direct hardware access tasks (CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE or CAP_SYS_RAWIO) have their score divided by 4 - * if oom condition happened in one cpuset and checked task does not belong + * if oom condition happened in one cpuset and checked process does not belong to it, its score is divided by 8 * the resulting score is multiplied by two to the power of oom_adj, i.e. points <<= oom_adj when it is positive and |