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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2012-12-18 03:22:27 +0400 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2012-12-18 03:22:27 +0400 |
| commit | 376bddd34433065aeb9b9a140870537feecf90ef (patch) | |
| tree | a40e2b84ad89f4b3ba968de65a4bf7ff6ccae835 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | d526e85f60fce9aa2a1432cbd06e3cf20c1644c8 (diff) | |
| parent | 667b504a2c411e4d5915a6e2260a3857ba9f797a (diff) | |
| download | linux-376bddd34433065aeb9b9a140870537feecf90ef.tar.xz | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'agust/next' into next
Brings some 52xx updates. Also manually merged tools/perf/perf.h.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a1793d670cd0..3844d21d6ca3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Table of Contents 2 Modifying System Parameters 3 Per-Process Parameters - 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj - Adjust the oom-killer + 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj & /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score 3.2 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields @@ -1320,10 +1320,10 @@ of the kernel. CHAPTER 3: PER-PROCESS PARAMETERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj- Adjust the oom-killer score +3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj & /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj- Adjust the oom-killer score -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -This file can be used to adjust the badness heuristic used to select which +These file can be used to adjust the badness heuristic used to select which process gets killed in out of memory conditions. The badness heuristic assigns a value to each candidate task ranging from 0 @@ -1361,6 +1361,12 @@ same system, cpuset, mempolicy, or memory controller resources to use at least equivalent to discounting 50% of the task's allowed memory from being considered as scoring against the task. +For backwards compatibility with previous kernels, /proc/<pid>/oom_adj may also +be used to tune the badness score. Its acceptable values range from -16 +(OOM_ADJUST_MIN) to +15 (OOM_ADJUST_MAX) and a special value of -17 +(OOM_DISABLE) to disable oom killing entirely for that task. Its value is +scaled linearly with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj. + The value of /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj may be reduced no lower than the last value set by a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE process. To reduce the value any lower requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. @@ -1375,7 +1381,9 @@ minimal amount of work. ------------------------------------------------------------- This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for -any given <pid>. +any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj to tune which +process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. + 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields ------------------------------------------------------- |