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author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-01-10 16:38:41 -0800 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-01-25 20:22:40 -0800 |
commit | 91fe0e4d044044592e667fd4784edc39fe53bbd8 (patch) | |
tree | 15bf58aced9d1b5847ef456491028d5196311d81 /Documentation | |
parent | 3ab76c767bc783c122a8dfe105fbc10a0b029b42 (diff) |
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst: fix possessive form of "process"
The possessive form of "process" is "process's". Fix up various
misdirected attempts at this. Also reflow some paragraphs.
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 34 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 4e06f246407c..09f0aed5a08b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ fixes/update part 1.1 Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> June 9 2009 3.11 /proc/<pid>/patch_state - Livepatch patch operation state 3.12 /proc/<pid>/arch_status - Task architecture specific information 3.13 /proc/<pid>/fd - List of symlinks to open files - 3.14 /proc/<pid/ksm_stat - Information about the process' ksm status. + 3.14 /proc/<pid/ksm_stat - Information about the process's ksm status. 4 Configuring procfs 4.1 Mount options @@ -485,14 +485,15 @@ Memory Area, or VMA) there is a series of lines such as the following:: THPeligible: 0 VmFlags: rd ex mr mw me dw -The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the -mapping in /proc/PID/maps. Following lines show the size of the mapping -(size); the size of each page allocated when backing a VMA (KernelPageSize), -which is usually the same as the size in the page table entries; the page size -used by the MMU when backing a VMA (in most cases, the same as KernelPageSize); -the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM (RSS); the -process' proportional share of this mapping (PSS); and the number of clean and -dirty shared and private pages in the mapping. +The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for +the mapping in /proc/PID/maps. Following lines show the size of the +mapping (size); the size of each page allocated when backing a VMA +(KernelPageSize), which is usually the same as the size in the page table +entries; the page size used by the MMU when backing a VMA (in most cases, +the same as KernelPageSize); the amount of the mapping that is currently +resident in RAM (RSS); the process's proportional share of this mapping +(PSS); and the number of clean and dirty shared and private pages in the +mapping. The "proportional set size" (PSS) of a process is the count of pages it has in memory, where each page is divided by the number of processes sharing it. @@ -2233,8 +2234,8 @@ The number of open files for the process is stored in 'size' member of stat() output for /proc/<pid>/fd for fast access. ------------------------------------------------------- -3.14 /proc/<pid/ksm_stat - Information about the process' ksm status --------------------------------------------------------------------- +3.14 /proc/<pid/ksm_stat - Information about the process's ksm status +--------------------------------------------------------------------- When CONFIG_KSM is enabled, each process has this file which displays the information of ksm merging status. @@ -2288,14 +2289,15 @@ memory consumed. ksm_merge_any ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -It specifies whether the process'mm is added by prctl() into the candidate list -of KSM or not, and if KSM scanning is fully enabled at process level. +It specifies whether the process's 'mm is added by prctl() into the +candidate list of KSM or not, and if KSM scanning is fully enabled at +process level. ksm_mergeable ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -It specifies whether any VMAs of the process'mm are currently applicable -to KSM. +It specifies whether any VMAs of the process''s mms are currently +applicable to KSM. More information about KSM can be found in Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst. @@ -2329,7 +2331,7 @@ arguments are now protected against local eavesdroppers. hidepid=invisible or hidepid=2 means hidepid=1 plus all /proc/<pid>/ will be fully invisible to other users. It doesn't mean that it hides a fact whether a process with a specific pid value exists (it can be learned by other means, e.g. -by "kill -0 $PID"), but it hides process' uid and gid, which may be learned by +by "kill -0 $PID"), but it hides process's uid and gid, which may be learned by stat()'ing /proc/<pid>/ otherwise. It greatly complicates an intruder's task of gathering information about running processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated privileges, whether other user runs some sensitive program, whether |