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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/CodingStyle | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 2 |
4 files changed, 45 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index c58b236bbe04..cb9258b8fd35 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -671,8 +671,9 @@ ones already enabled by DEBUG. Chapter 14: Allocating memory The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators: -kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and vzalloc(). Please refer to -the API documentation for further information about them. +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kmalloc_array(), kcalloc(), vmalloc(), and +vzalloc(). Please refer to the API documentation for further information +about them. The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following: @@ -686,6 +687,17 @@ Casting the return value which is a void pointer is redundant. The conversion from void pointer to any other pointer type is guaranteed by the C programming language. +The preferred form for allocating an array is the following: + + p = kmalloc_array(n, sizeof(...), ...); + +The preferred form for allocating a zeroed array is the following: + + p = kcalloc(n, sizeof(...), ...); + +Both forms check for overflow on the allocation size n * sizeof(...), +and return NULL if that occurred. + Chapter 15: The inline disease diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 912af6ce5626..fb0a6aeb936c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Table of Contents 3.4 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings 3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts 3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm + 3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children 4 Configuring procfs 4.1 Mount options @@ -310,6 +311,11 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7) start_data address above which program data+bss is placed end_data address below which program data+bss is placed start_brk address above which program heap can be expanded with brk() + arg_start address above which program command line is placed + arg_end address below which program command line is placed + env_start address above which program environment is placed + env_end address below which program environment is placed + exit_code the thread's exit_code in the form reported by the waitpid system call .............................................................................. The /proc/PID/maps file containing the currently mapped memory regions and @@ -1578,6 +1584,23 @@ then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated comm value. +3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +This file provides a fast way to retrieve first level children pids +of a task pointed by <pid>/<tid> pair. The format is a space separated +stream of pids. + +Note the "first level" here -- if a child has own children they will +not be listed here, one needs to read /proc/<children-pid>/task/<tid>/children +to obtain the descendants. + +Since this interface is intended to be fast and cheap it doesn't +guarantee to provide precise results and some children might be +skipped, especially if they've exited right after we printed their +pids, so one need to either stop or freeze processes being inspected +if precise results are needed. + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Configuring procfs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 88fd7f5c8dcd..13d6166d7a27 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -225,6 +225,13 @@ 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). +/proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msg_default is a read/write file for setting/getting the +default number of messages in a queue value if attr parameter of mq_open(2) is +NULL. If it exceed msg_max, the default value is initialized msg_max. + +/proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msgsize_default is a read/write file for setting/getting +the default message size value if attr parameter of mq_open(2) is NULL. If it +exceed msgsize_max, the default value is initialized msgsize_max. 4. /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface -------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt index 4600cbe3d6be..7587493c67f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ There are three components to pagemap: * Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped * Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped * Bits 55-60 page shift (page size = 1<<page shift) - * Bit 61 reserved for future use + * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon * Bit 62 page swapped * Bit 63 page present |