2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score
2.14 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields
2.15 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings
+ 2.16 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts
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Preface
Denotes the number of inodes the system has allocated. This number will
grow and shrink dynamically.
+nr_open
+-------
+
+Denotes the maximum number of file-handles a process can
+allocate. Default value is 1024*1024 (1048576) which should be
+enough for most machines. Actual limit depends on RLIMIT_NOFILE
+resource limit.
+
nr_free_inodes
--------------
Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be
written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up.
+highmem_is_dirtyable
+--------------------
+
+Only present if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is set.
+
+This defaults to 0 (false), meaning that the ratios set above are calculated
+as a percentage of lowmem only. This protects against excessive scanning
+in page reclaim, swapping and general VM distress.
+
+Setting this to 1 can be useful on 32 bit machines where you want to make
+random changes within an MMAPed file that is larger than your available
+lowmem without causing large quantities of random IO. Is is safe if the
+behavior of all programs running on the machine is known and memory will
+not be otherwise stressed.
+
legacy_va_layout
----------------
If non-zero, this sysctl disables the new 32-bit mmap mmap layout - the kernel
will use the legacy (2.4) layout for all processes.
-lower_zone_protection
+lowmem_reserve_ratio
---------------------
For some specialised workloads on highmem machines it is dangerous for
mechanism will also defend that region from allocations which could use
highmem or lowmem).
-The `lower_zone_protection' tunable determines how aggressive the kernel is
-in defending these lower zones. The default value is zero - no
-protection at all.
+The `lowmem_reserve_ratio' tunable determines how aggressive the kernel is
+in defending these lower zones.
If you have a machine which uses highmem or ISA DMA and your
applications are using mlock(), or if you are running with no swap then
-you probably should increase the lower_zone_protection setting.
-
-The units of this tunable are fairly vague. It is approximately equal
-to "megabytes," so setting lower_zone_protection=100 will protect around 100
-megabytes of the lowmem zone from user allocations. It will also make
-those 100 megabytes unavailable for use by applications and by
-pagecache, so there is a cost.
-
-The effects of this tunable may be observed by monitoring
-/proc/meminfo:LowFree. Write a single huge file and observe the point
-at which LowFree ceases to fall.
-
-A reasonable value for lower_zone_protection is 100.
+you probably should change the lowmem_reserve_ratio setting.
+
+The lowmem_reserve_ratio is an array. You can see them by reading this file.
+-
+% cat /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio
+256 256 32
+-
+Note: # of this elements is one fewer than number of zones. Because the highest
+ zone's value is not necessary for following calculation.
+
+But, these values are not used directly. The kernel calculates # of protection
+pages for each zones from them. These are shown as array of protection pages
+in /proc/zoneinfo like followings. (This is an example of x86-64 box).
+Each zone has an array of protection pages like this.
+
+-
+Node 0, zone DMA
+ pages free 1355
+ min 3
+ low 3
+ high 4
+ :
+ :
+ numa_other 0
+ protection: (0, 2004, 2004, 2004)
+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ pagesets
+ cpu: 0 pcp: 0
+ :
+-
+These protections are added to score to judge whether this zone should be used
+for page allocation or should be reclaimed.
+
+In this example, if normal pages (index=2) are required to this DMA zone and
+pages_high is used for watermark, the kernel judges this zone should not be
+used because pages_free(1355) is smaller than watermark + protection[2]
+(4 + 2004 = 2008). If this protection value is 0, this zone would be used for
+normal page requirement. If requirement is DMA zone(index=0), protection[0]
+(=0) is used.
+
+zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following exprssion.
+
+(i < j):
+ zone[i]->protection[j]
+ = (total sums of present_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node)
+ / lowmem_reserve_ratio[i];
+(i = j):
+ (should not be protected. = 0;
+(i > j):
+ (not necessary, but looks 0)
+
+The default values of lowmem_reserve_ratio[i] are
+ 256 (if zone[i] means DMA or DMA32 zone)
+ 32 (others).
+As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio.
+256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total present
+pages of higher zones on the node.
+
+If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective.
+The minimum value is 1 (1/1 -> 100%).
page-cluster
------------
-----------
laptop_mode is a knob that controls "laptop mode". All the things that are
-controlled by this knob are discussed in Documentation/laptop-mode.txt.
+controlled by this knob are discussed in Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt.
block_dump
----------
block_dump enables block I/O debugging when set to a nonzero value. More
-information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/laptop-mode.txt.
+information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt.
swap_token_timeout
------------------
$ echo 0x7 > /proc/self/coredump_filter
$ ./some_program
+2.16 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+This file contains lines of the form:
+
+36 35 98:0 /mnt1 /mnt2 rw,noatime master:1 - ext3 /dev/root rw,errors=continue
+(1)(2)(3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11)
+
+(1) mount ID: unique identifier of the mount (may be reused after umount)
+(2) parent ID: ID of parent (or of self for the top of the mount tree)
+(3) major:minor: value of st_dev for files on filesystem
+(4) root: root of the mount within the filesystem
+(5) mount point: mount point relative to the process's root
+(6) mount options: per mount options
+(7) optional fields: zero or more fields of the form "tag[:value]"
+(8) separator: marks the end of the optional fields
+(9) filesystem type: name of filesystem of the form "type[.subtype]"
+(10) mount source: filesystem specific information or "none"
+(11) super options: per super block options
+
+Parsers should ignore all unrecognised optional fields. Currently the
+possible optional fields are:
+
+shared:X mount is shared in peer group X
+master:X mount is slave to peer group X
+propagate_from:X mount is slave and receives propagation from peer group X (*)
+unbindable mount is unbindable
+
+(*) X is the closest dominant peer group under the process's root. If
+X is the immediate master of the mount, or if there's no dominant peer
+group under the same root, then only the "master:X" field is present
+and not the "propagate_from:X" field.
+
+For more information on mount propagation see:
+
+ Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
+
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