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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 9abdba17565e..48fbfc336ebf 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -691,6 +691,10 @@ files are there, and which are missing. number of processes currently runnable (running or on ready queue); total number of processes in system; last pid created. + All fields are separated by one space except "number of + processes currently runnable" and "total number of processes + in system", which are separated by a slash ('/'). Example: + 0.61 0.61 0.55 3/828 22084 locks Kernel locks meminfo Memory info misc Miscellaneous diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst index 56856481dc8d..a6726082a7c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst @@ -217,6 +217,12 @@ between the calls to start() and stop(), so holding a lock during that time is a reasonable thing to do. The seq_file code will also avoid taking any other locks while the iterator is active. +The iterater value returned by start() or next() is guaranteed to be +passed to a subsequent next() or stop() call. This allows resources +such as locks that were taken to be reliably released. There is *no* +guarantee that the iterator will be passed to show(), though in practice +it often will be. + Formatted output ================ |