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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 6ffd04c736db..0b86a8022fa1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -61,19 +61,6 @@ Preface 0.1 Introduction/Credits ------------------------ -This documentation is part of a soon (or so we hope) to be released book on -the SuSE Linux distribution. As there is no complete documentation for the -/proc file system and we've used many freely available sources to write these -chapters, it seems only fair to give the work back to the Linux community. -This work is based on the 2.2.* kernel version and the upcoming 2.4.*. I'm -afraid it's still far from complete, but we hope it will be useful. As far as -we know, it is the first 'all-in-one' document about the /proc file system. It -is focused on the Intel x86 hardware, so if you are looking for PPC, ARM, -SPARC, AXP, etc., features, you probably won't find what you are looking for. -It also only covers IPv4 networking, not IPv6 nor other protocols - sorry. But -additions and patches are welcome and will be added to this document if you -mail them to Bodo. - We'd like to thank Alan Cox, Rik van Riel, and Alexey Kuznetsov and a lot of other people for help compiling this documentation. We'd also like to extend a special thank you to Andi Kleen for documentation, which we relied on heavily @@ -81,17 +68,9 @@ to create this document, as well as the additional information he provided. Thanks to everybody else who contributed source or docs to the Linux kernel and helped create a great piece of software... :) -If you have any comments, corrections or additions, please don't hesitate to -contact Bodo Bauer at bb@ricochet.net. We'll be happy to add them to this -document. - The latest version of this document is available online at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/proc.html -If the above direction does not works for you, you could try the kernel -mailing list at linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org and/or try to reach me at -comandante@zaralinux.com. - 0.2 Legal Stuff --------------- @@ -2180,6 +2159,20 @@ DMA Buffer files where 'size' is the size of the DMA buffer in bytes. 'count' is the file count of the DMA buffer file. 'exp_name' is the name of the DMA buffer exporter. +VFIO Device files +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + pos: 0 + flags: 02000002 + mnt_id: 17 + ino: 5122 + vfio-device-syspath: /sys/devices/pci0000:e0/0000:e0:01.1/0000:e1:00.0/0000:e2:05.0/0000:e8:00.0 + +where 'vfio-device-syspath' is the sysfs path corresponding to the VFIO device +file. + 3.9 /proc/<pid>/map_files - Information about memory mapped files --------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory contains symbolic links which represent memory mapped files @@ -2376,6 +2369,7 @@ The following mount options are supported: hidepid= Set /proc/<pid>/ access mode. gid= Set the group authorized to learn processes information. subset= Show only the specified subset of procfs. + pidns= Specify a the namespace used by this procfs. ========= ======================================================== hidepid=off or hidepid=0 means classic mode - everybody may access all @@ -2408,6 +2402,13 @@ information about processes information, just add identd to this group. subset=pid hides all top level files and directories in the procfs that are not related to tasks. +pidns= specifies a pid namespace (either as a string path to something like +`/proc/$pid/ns/pid`, or a file descriptor when using `FSCONFIG_SET_FD`) that +will be used by the procfs instance when translating pids. By default, procfs +will use the calling process's active pid namespace. Note that the pid +namespace of an existing procfs instance cannot be modified (attempting to do +so will give an `-EBUSY` error). + Chapter 5: Filesystem behavior ============================== |