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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2020-08-11 18:31:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-12 10:57:56 -0700
commitb1aa7c9377bdff904efa0fbde1f96e1769730d8a (patch)
tree992f73fbcf3502d956b98a2a938ea0a2861c74de /Documentation
parentde3f32e1424ca5c751d4cd78cbed6d17ca261c24 (diff)
doc, mm: clarify /proc/<pid>/oom_score value range
The exported value includes oom_score_adj so the range is no [0, 1000] as described in the previous section but rather [0, 2000]. Mention that fact explicitly. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200709062603.18480-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -1676,6 +1676,9 @@ This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer for
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.
+Please note that the exported value includes oom_score_adj so it is
+effectively in range [0,2000].
+
3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields
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