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fea681da | 1 | .\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com) |
b4e9ee8f | 2 | .\" and Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> |
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3 | .\" with networking additions from Alan Cox (A.Cox@swansea.ac.uk) |
4 | .\" and scsi additions from Michael Neuffer (neuffer@mail.uni-mainz.de) | |
5 | .\" and sysctl additions from Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) | |
6 | .\" and System V IPC (as well as various other) additions from | |
c11b1abf | 7 | .\" Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> |
fea681da | 8 | .\" |
1dd72f9c | 9 | .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL) |
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10 | .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or |
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12 | .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of | |
13 | .\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. | |
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16 | .\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any | |
17 | .\" document formatting or typesetting system, including | |
18 | .\" intermediate and printed output. | |
19 | .\" | |
20 | .\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
21 | .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
22 | .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
23 | .\" GNU General Public License for more details. | |
24 | .\" | |
25 | .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public | |
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26 | .\" License along with this manual; if not, see |
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6a8d8745 | 28 | .\" %%%LICENSE_END |
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29 | .\" |
30 | .\" Modified 1995-05-17 by faith@cs.unc.edu | |
31 | .\" Minor changes by aeb and Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com). | |
32 | .\" Modified 1996-04-13, 1996-07-22 by aeb@cwi.nl | |
33 | .\" Modified 2001-12-16 by rwhron@earthlink.net | |
34 | .\" Modified 2002-07-13 by jbelton@shaw.ca | |
35 | .\" Modified 2002-07-22, 2003-05-27, 2004-04-06, 2004-05-25 | |
c11b1abf | 36 | .\" by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> |
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37 | .\" 2004-11-17, mtk -- updated notes on /proc/loadavg |
38 | .\" 2004-12-01, mtk, rtsig-max and rtsig-nr went away in 2.6.8 | |
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39 | .\" 2004-12-14, mtk, updated 'statm', and fixed error in order of list |
40 | .\" 2005-05-12, mtk, updated 'stat' | |
6d64ca9c | 41 | .\" 2005-07-13, mtk, added /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* |
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42 | .\" 2005-09-16, mtk, Added /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable |
43 | .\" 2005-09-19, mtk, added /proc/zoneinfo | |
b4e9ee8f | 44 | .\" 2005-03-01, mtk, moved /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* material to mq_overview.7. |
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45 | .\" 2008-06-05, mtk, Added /proc/[pid]/oom_score, /proc/[pid]/oom_adj, |
46 | .\" /proc/[pid]/limits, /proc/[pid]/mountinfo, /proc/[pid]/mountstats, | |
47 | .\" and /proc/[pid]/fdinfo/*. | |
48 | .\" 2008-06-19, mtk, Documented /proc/[pid]/status. | |
cc2d5c36 | 49 | .\" 2008-07-15, mtk, added /proc/config.gz |
363f747c | 50 | .\" |
43d42cc0 | 51 | .\" FIXME cross check against Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |
c13182ef | 52 | .\" to see what information could be imported from that file |
c533af9d | 53 | .\" into this file. |
fea681da | 54 | .\" |
4b8c67d9 | 55 | .TH PROC 5 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
fea681da | 56 | .SH NAME |
9ee4a2b6 | 57 | proc \- process information pseudo-filesystem |
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58 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
59 | The | |
31fa1fd2 | 60 | .B proc |
ac8727b6 | 61 | filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem which provides an interface to |
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62 | kernel data structures. |
63 | It is commonly mounted at | |
fea681da | 64 | .IR /proc . |
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65 | Typically, it is mounted automatically by the system, |
66 | but it can also be mounted manually using a command such as: | |
67 | .PP | |
68 | .in +4n | |
69 | .EX | |
70 | mount \-t proc proc /proc | |
71 | .EE | |
72 | .in | |
73 | .PP | |
7e174651 | 74 | Most of the files in the |
31fa1fd2 | 75 | .B proc |
7e174651 | 76 | filesystem are read-only, |
64165e01 | 77 | but some files are writable, allowing kernel variables to be changed. |
7e174651 | 78 | .\" |
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79 | .SS Mount options |
80 | The | |
31fa1fd2 | 81 | .B proc |
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82 | filesystem supports the following mount options: |
83 | .TP | |
84 | .BR hidepid "=\fIn\fP (since Linux 3.3)" | |
85 | .\" commit 0499680a42141d86417a8fbaa8c8db806bea1201 | |
86 | This option controls who can access the information in | |
87 | .IR /proc/[pid] | |
88 | directories. | |
89 | The argument, | |
90 | .IR n , | |
91 | is one of the following values: | |
92 | .RS | |
93 | .TP 4 | |
94 | 0 | |
95 | Everybody may access all | |
96 | .IR /proc/[pid] | |
97 | directories. | |
98 | This is the traditional behavior, | |
99 | and the default if this mount option is not specified. | |
100 | .TP | |
101 | 1 | |
102 | Users may not access files and subdirectories inside any | |
103 | .IR /proc/[pid] | |
104 | directories but their own (the | |
105 | .IR /proc/[pid] | |
106 | directories themselves remain visible). | |
107 | Sensitive files such as | |
97949440 | 108 | .IR /proc/[pid]/cmdline |
fee59977 | 109 | and |
97949440 | 110 | .IR /proc/[pid]/status |
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111 | are now protected against other users. |
112 | This makes it impossible to learn whether any user is running a | |
113 | specific program | |
114 | (so long as the program doesn't otherwise reveal itself by its behavior). | |
115 | .\" As an additional bonus, since | |
97949440 | 116 | .\" .IR /proc/[pid]/cmdline |
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117 | .\" is unaccessible for other users, |
118 | .\" poorly written programs passing sensitive information via | |
119 | .\" program arguments are now protected against local eavesdroppers. | |
120 | .TP | |
121 | 2 | |
122 | As for mode 1, but in addition the | |
123 | .IR /proc/[pid] | |
124 | directories belonging to other users become invisible. | |
125 | This means that | |
126 | .IR /proc/[pid] | |
127 | entries can no longer be used to discover the PIDs on the system. | |
128 | This doesn't hide the fact that a process with a specific PID value exists | |
9bc87ed0 | 129 | (it can be learned by other means, for example, by "kill \-0 $PID"), |
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130 | but it hides a process's UID and GID, |
131 | which could otherwise be learned by employing | |
132 | .BR stat (2) | |
133 | on a | |
134 | .IR /proc/[pid] | |
135 | directory. | |
136 | This greatly complicates an attacker's task of gathering | |
137 | information about running processes (e.g., discovering whether | |
138 | some daemon is running with elevated privileges, | |
139 | whether another user is running some sensitive program, | |
140 | whether other users are running any program at all, and so on). | |
141 | .RE | |
142 | .TP | |
143 | .BR gid "=\fIgid\fP (since Linux 3.3)" | |
144 | .\" commit 0499680a42141d86417a8fbaa8c8db806bea1201 | |
145 | Specifies the ID of a group whose members are authorized to | |
146 | learn process information otherwise prohibited by | |
147 | .BR hidepid | |
95b1c1d1 | 148 | (i.e., users in this group behave as though |
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149 | .I /proc |
150 | was mounted with | |
95b1c1d1 | 151 | .IR hidepid=0 ). |
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152 | This group should be used instead of approaches such as putting |
153 | nonroot users into the | |
154 | .BR sudoers (5) | |
155 | file. | |
156 | .SS Files and directories | |
ac8727b6 | 157 | The following list describes many of the files and directories under the |
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158 | .I /proc |
159 | hierarchy. | |
fea681da | 160 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 161 | .I /proc/[pid] |
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162 | There is a numerical subdirectory for each running process; the |
163 | subdirectory is named by the process ID. | |
2dad4c59 | 164 | .IP |
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165 | Each |
166 | .I /proc/[pid] | |
167 | subdirectory contains the | |
168 | pseudo-files and directories described below. | |
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169 | These files are normally owned by the effective user and |
170 | effective group ID of the process. | |
171 | However, as a security measure, the ownership is made | |
172 | .IR root:root | |
173 | if the process's "dumpable" attribute is set to a value other than 1. | |
174 | This attribute may change for the following reasons: | |
175 | .RS | |
176 | .IP * 3 | |
177 | The attribute was explicitly set via the | |
178 | .BR prctl (2) | |
179 | .B PR_SET_DUMPABLE | |
180 | operation. | |
181 | .IP * | |
182 | The attribute was reset to the value in the file | |
183 | .IR /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable | |
184 | (described below), for the reasons described in | |
185 | .BR prctl (2). | |
186 | .RE | |
187 | .IP | |
188 | Resetting the "dumpable" attribute to 1 reverts the ownership of the | |
189 | .IR /proc/[pid]/* | |
190 | files to the process's real UID and real GID. | |
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191 | .TP |
192 | .I /proc/[pid]/attr | |
193 | .\" https://lwn.net/Articles/28222/ | |
194 | .\" From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> | |
195 | .\" To: LKML and others | |
196 | .\" Subject: [RFC][PATCH] Process Attribute API for Security Modules | |
197 | .\" Date: 08 Apr 2003 16:17:52 -0400 | |
198 | .\" | |
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199 | .\" http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/selinux/papers/module/x362.shtml |
200 | .\" | |
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201 | The files in this directory provide an API for security modules. |
202 | The contents of this directory are files that can be read and written | |
203 | in order to set security-related attributes. | |
204 | This directory was added to support SELinux, | |
205 | but the intention was that the API be general enough to support | |
206 | other security modules. | |
207 | For the purpose of explanation, | |
208 | examples of how SELinux uses these files are provided below. | |
2dad4c59 | 209 | .IP |
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210 | This directory is present only if the kernel was configured with |
211 | .BR CONFIG_SECURITY . | |
212 | .TP | |
213 | .IR /proc/[pid]/attr/current " (since Linux 2.6.0)" | |
214 | The contents of this file represent the current | |
215 | security attributes of the process. | |
2dad4c59 | 216 | .IP |
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217 | In SELinux, this file is used to get the security context of a process. |
218 | Prior to Linux 2.6.11, this file could not be used to set the security | |
219 | context (a write was always denied), since SELinux limited process security | |
220 | transitions to | |
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221 | .BR execve (2) |
222 | (see the description of | |
223 | .IR /proc/[pid]/attr/exec , | |
224 | below). | |
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225 | Since Linux 2.6.11, SELinux lifted this restriction and began supporting |
226 | "set" operations via writes to this node if authorized by policy, | |
227 | although use of this operation is only suitable for applications that are | |
228 | trusted to maintain any desired separation between the old and new security | |
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229 | contexts. |
230 | Prior to Linux 2.6.28, SELinux did not allow threads within a | |
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231 | multi-threaded process to set their security context via this node |
232 | as it would yield an inconsistency among the security contexts of the | |
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233 | threads sharing the same memory space. |
234 | Since Linux 2.6.28, SELinux lifted | |
fd44bdc7 | 235 | this restriction and began supporting "set" operations for threads within |
b6620a25 | 236 | a multithreaded process if the new security context is bounded by the old |
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237 | security context, where the bounded relation is defined in policy and |
238 | guarantees that the new security context has a subset of the permissions | |
239 | of the old security context. | |
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240 | Other security modules may choose to support "set" operations via |
241 | writes to this node. | |
242 | .TP | |
243 | .IR /proc/[pid]/attr/exec " (since Linux 2.6.0)" | |
244 | This file represents the attributes to assign to the | |
245 | process upon a subsequent | |
246 | .BR execve (2). | |
2dad4c59 | 247 | .IP |
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248 | In SELinux, |
249 | this is needed to support role/domain transitions, and | |
250 | .BR execve (2) | |
251 | is the preferred point to make such transitions because it offers better | |
252 | control over the initialization of the process in the new security label | |
253 | and the inheritance of state. | |
254 | In SELinux, this attribute is reset on | |
255 | .BR execve (2) | |
256 | so that the new program reverts to the default behavior for any | |
257 | .BR execve (2) | |
258 | calls that it may make. | |
259 | In SELinux, a process can set | |
260 | only its own | |
261 | .I /proc/[pid]/attr/exec | |
262 | attribute. | |
263 | .TP | |
264 | .IR /proc/[pid]/attr/fscreate " (since Linux 2.6.0)" | |
265 | This file represents the attributes to assign to files | |
266 | created by subsequent calls to | |
267 | .BR open (2), | |
268 | .BR mkdir (2), | |
269 | .BR symlink (2), | |
270 | and | |
271 | .BR mknod (2) | |
2dad4c59 | 272 | .IP |
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273 | SELinux employs this file to support creation of a file |
274 | (using the aforementioned system calls) | |
275 | in a secure state, | |
276 | so that there is no risk of inappropriate access being obtained | |
277 | between the time of creation and the time that attributes are set. | |
278 | In SELinux, this attribute is reset on | |
279 | .BR execve (2), | |
280 | so that the new program reverts to the default behavior for | |
281 | any file creation calls it may make, but the attribute will persist | |
282 | across multiple file creation calls within a program unless it is | |
283 | explicitly reset. | |
284 | In SELinux, a process can set only its own | |
285 | .IR /proc/[pid]/attr/fscreate | |
286 | attribute. | |
287 | .TP | |
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288 | .IR /proc/[pid]/attr/keycreate " (since Linux 2.6.18)" |
289 | .\" commit 4eb582cf1fbd7b9e5f466e3718a59c957e75254e | |
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290 | If a process writes a security context into this file, |
291 | all subsequently created keys | |
292 | .RB ( add_key (2)) | |
293 | will be labeled with this context. | |
294 | For further information, see the kernel source file | |
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295 | .I Documentation/security/keys/core.rst |
296 | (or file | |
297 | .\" commit b68101a1e8f0263dbc7b8375d2a7c57c6216fb76 | |
298 | .I Documentation/security/keys.txt | |
299 | on Linux between 3.0 and 4.13, or | |
300 | .\" commit d410fa4ef99112386de5f218dd7df7b4fca910b4 | |
301 | .I Documentation/keys.txt | |
302 | before Linux 3.0). | |
2702dc21 | 303 | .TP |
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304 | .IR /proc/[pid]/attr/prev " (since Linux 2.6.0)" |
305 | This file contains the security context of the process before the last | |
306 | .BR execve (2); | |
307 | that is, the previous value of | |
308 | .IR /proc/[pid]/attr/current . | |
309 | .TP | |
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310 | .IR /proc/[pid]/attr/socketcreate " (since Linux 2.6.18)" |
311 | .\" commit 42c3e03ef6b298813557cdb997bd6db619cd65a2 | |
312 | If a process writes a security context into this file, | |
313 | all subsequently created sockets will be labeled with this context. | |
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314 | .TP |
315 | .IR /proc/[pid]/autogroup " (since Linux 2.6.38)" | |
316 | .\" commit 5091faa449ee0b7d73bc296a93bca9540fc51d0a | |
317 | See | |
318 | .BR sched (7). | |
fea681da | 319 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 320 | .IR /proc/[pid]/auxv " (since 2.6.0-test7)" |
857f1942 | 321 | This contains the contents of the ELF interpreter information passed |
c13182ef | 322 | to the process at exec time. |
857f1942 | 323 | The format is one \fIunsigned long\fP ID |
c13182ef | 324 | plus one \fIunsigned long\fP value for each entry. |
857f1942 | 325 | The last entry contains two zeros. |
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326 | See also |
327 | .BR getauxval (3). | |
2dad4c59 | 328 | .IP |
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329 | Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode |
330 | .B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | |
331 | check; see | |
332 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
b5d204d0 | 333 | .TP |
8d708d6b | 334 | .IR /proc/[pid]/cgroup " (since Linux 2.6.24)" |
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335 | See |
336 | .BR cgroups (7). | |
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337 | .TP |
338 | .IR /proc/[pid]/clear_refs " (since Linux 2.6.22)" | |
339 | .\" commit b813e931b4c8235bb42e301096ea97dbdee3e8fe (2.6.22) | |
340 | .\" commit 398499d5f3613c47f2143b8c54a04efb5d7a6da9 (2.6.32) | |
341 | .\" commit 040fa02077de01c7e08fa75be6125e4ca5636011 (3.11) | |
b4e9ee8f | 342 | .\" |
b4e9ee8f | 343 | .\" "Clears page referenced bits shown in smaps output" |
76e0451c | 344 | .\" write-only, writable only by the owner of the process |
2dad4c59 | 345 | .IP |
76e0451c | 346 | This is a write-only file, writable only by owner of the process. |
2dad4c59 | 347 | .IP |
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348 | The following values may be written to the file: |
349 | .RS | |
350 | .TP | |
351 | 1 (since Linux 2.6.22) | |
352 | .\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_ALL | |
353 | Reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG | |
354 | bits for all the pages associated with the process. | |
355 | (Before kernel 2.6.32, writing any nonzero value to this file | |
356 | had this effect.) | |
357 | .TP | |
358 | 2 (since Linux 2.6.32) | |
359 | .\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_ANON | |
360 | Reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG | |
361 | bits for all anonymous pages associated with the process. | |
362 | .TP | |
363 | 3 (since Linux 2.6.32) | |
364 | .\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_MAPPED | |
365 | Reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG | |
366 | bits for all file-mapped pages associated with the process. | |
367 | .RE | |
368 | .IP | |
369 | Clearing the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG bits provides a method | |
370 | to measure approximately how much memory a process is using. | |
322d49fb | 371 | One first inspects the values in the "Referenced" fields |
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372 | for the VMAs shown in |
373 | .IR /proc/[pid]/smaps | |
374 | to get an idea of the memory footprint of the | |
375 | process. | |
376 | One then clears the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG bits | |
377 | and, after some measured time interval, | |
322d49fb | 378 | once again inspects the values in the "Referenced" fields |
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379 | to get an idea of the change in memory footprint of the |
380 | process during the measured interval. | |
381 | If one is interested only in inspecting the selected mapping types, | |
382 | then the value 2 or 3 can be used instead of 1. | |
2dad4c59 | 383 | .IP |
dfdf642e | 384 | Further values can be written to affect different properties: |
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385 | .RS |
386 | .TP | |
387 | 4 (since Linux 3.11) | |
388 | Clear the soft-dirty bit for all the pages associated with the process. | |
389 | .\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY | |
390 | This is used (in conjunction with | |
391 | .IR /proc/[pid]/pagemap ) | |
392 | by the check-point restore system to discover which pages of a process | |
393 | have been dirtied since the file | |
394 | .IR /proc/[pid]/clear_refs | |
395 | was written to. | |
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396 | .TP |
397 | 5 (since Linux 4.0) | |
398 | .\" Internally: CLEAR_REFS_MM_HIWATER_RSS | |
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399 | Reset the peak resident set size ("high water mark") to the process's |
400 | current resident set size value. | |
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401 | .RE |
402 | .IP | |
403 | Writing any value to | |
404 | .IR /proc/[pid]/clear_refs | |
405 | other than those listed above has no effect. | |
2dad4c59 | 406 | .IP |
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407 | The |
408 | .IR /proc/[pid]/clear_refs | |
409 | file is present only if the | |
410 | .B CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR | |
411 | kernel configuration option is enabled. | |
857f1942 | 412 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 413 | .I /proc/[pid]/cmdline |
6975c16e | 414 | This read-only file holds the complete command line for the process, |
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415 | unless the process is a zombie. |
416 | .\" In 2.3.26, this also used to be true if the process was swapped out. | |
417 | In the latter case, there is nothing in this file: | |
75b94dc3 | 418 | that is, a read on this file will return 0 characters. |
b447cd58 | 419 | The command-line arguments appear in this file as a set of |
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420 | strings separated by null bytes (\(aq\\0\(aq), |
421 | with a further null byte after the last string. | |
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422 | .TP |
423 | .IR /proc/[pid]/comm " (since Linux 2.6.33)" | |
424 | .\" commit 4614a696bd1c3a9af3a08f0e5874830a85b889d4 | |
425 | This file exposes the process's | |
426 | .I comm | |
427 | value\(emthat is, the command name associated with the process. | |
428 | Different threads in the same process may have different | |
429 | .I comm | |
430 | values, accessible via | |
431 | .IR /proc/[pid]/task/[tid]/comm . | |
432 | A thread may modify its | |
433 | .I comm | |
434 | value, or that of any of other thread in the same thread group (see | |
435 | the discussion of | |
436 | .B CLONE_THREAD | |
437 | in | |
438 | .BR clone (2)), | |
439 | by writing to the file | |
440 | .IR /proc/self/task/[tid]/comm . | |
441 | Strings longer than | |
442 | .B TASK_COMM_LEN | |
443 | (16) characters are silently truncated. | |
2dad4c59 | 444 | .IP |
ef4f4031 | 445 | This file provides a superset of the |
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446 | .BR prctl (2) |
447 | .B PR_SET_NAME | |
448 | and | |
449 | .B PR_GET_NAME | |
450 | operations, and is employed by | |
451 | .BR pthread_setname_np (3) | |
452 | when used to rename threads other than the caller. | |
fea681da | 453 | .TP |
7e07d950 | 454 | .IR /proc/[pid]/coredump_filter " (since Linux 2.6.23)" |
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455 | See |
456 | .BR core (5). | |
5c411b17 | 457 | .TP |
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458 | .IR /proc/[pid]/cpuset " (since Linux 2.6.12)" |
459 | .\" and/proc/[pid]/task/[tid]/cpuset | |
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460 | See |
461 | .BR cpuset (7). | |
b4e9ee8f | 462 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 463 | .I /proc/[pid]/cwd |
c13182ef | 464 | This is a symbolic link to the current working directory of the process. |
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465 | To find out the current working directory of process 20, |
466 | for instance, you can do this: | |
2dad4c59 | 467 | .IP |
59a40ed7 | 468 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 469 | .EX |
b43a3b30 | 470 | .RB "$" " cd /proc/20/cwd; /bin/pwd" |
37d5e699 | 471 | .EE |
59a40ed7 | 472 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 473 | .IP |
c13182ef MK |
474 | Note that the |
475 | .I pwd | |
e7b489f0 | 476 | command is often a shell built-in, and might |
c13182ef | 477 | not work properly. |
743638fd MK |
478 | In |
479 | .BR bash (1), | |
480 | you may use | |
481 | .IR "pwd\ \-P" . | |
2dad4c59 | 482 | .IP |
afcaf646 | 483 | .\" The following was still true as at kernel 2.6.13 |
c13182ef MK |
484 | In a multithreaded process, the contents of this symbolic link |
485 | are not available if the main thread has already terminated | |
afcaf646 | 486 | (typically by calling |
59a40ed7 | 487 | .BR pthread_exit (3)). |
2dad4c59 | 488 | .IP |
b902fe18 MK |
489 | Permission to dereference or read |
490 | .RB ( readlink (2)) | |
491 | this symbolic link is governed by a ptrace access mode | |
492 | .B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | |
493 | check; see | |
494 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
fea681da | 495 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 496 | .I /proc/[pid]/environ |
09651080 MK |
497 | This file contains the initial environment that was set |
498 | when the currently executing program was started via | |
499 | .BR execve (2). | |
f81fb444 | 500 | The entries are separated by null bytes (\(aq\\0\(aq), |
b4e9ee8f | 501 | and there may be a null byte at the end. |
fea681da | 502 | Thus, to print out the environment of process 1, you would do: |
37d5e699 | 503 | .IP |
a08ea57c | 504 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 505 | .EX |
13912780 | 506 | .RB "$" " strings /proc/1/environ" |
37d5e699 | 507 | .EE |
a08ea57c | 508 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 509 | .IP |
09651080 MK |
510 | If, after an |
511 | .BR execve (2), | |
512 | the process modifies its environment | |
c187d2a1 | 513 | (e.g., by calling functions such as |
387e2438 MF |
514 | .BR putenv (3) |
515 | or modifying the | |
516 | .BR environ (7) | |
517 | variable directly), | |
09651080 MK |
518 | this file will |
519 | .I not | |
520 | reflect those changes. | |
2dad4c59 | 521 | .IP |
c187d2a1 | 522 | Furthermore, a process may change the memory location that this file refers via |
387e2438 | 523 | .BR prctl (2) |
c187d2a1 | 524 | operations such as |
387e2438 | 525 | .BR PR_SET_MM_ENV_START . |
2dad4c59 | 526 | .IP |
82664739 MK |
527 | Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode |
528 | .B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | |
529 | check; see | |
530 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
fea681da | 531 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 532 | .I /proc/[pid]/exe |
fea681da | 533 | Under Linux 2.2 and later, this file is a symbolic link |
2d7195b8 | 534 | containing the actual pathname of the executed command. |
c13182ef MK |
535 | This symbolic link can be dereferenced normally; attempting to open |
536 | it will open the executable. | |
537 | You can even type | |
69119dc7 | 538 | .I /proc/[pid]/exe |
06dd061c | 539 | to run another copy of the same executable that is being run by |
69119dc7 | 540 | process [pid]. |
7e3c767a GJ |
541 | If the pathname has been unlinked, the symbolic link will contain the |
542 | string \(aq(deleted)\(aq appended to the original pathname. | |
afcaf646 | 543 | .\" The following was still true as at kernel 2.6.13 |
c13182ef MK |
544 | In a multithreaded process, the contents of this symbolic link |
545 | are not available if the main thread has already terminated | |
afcaf646 MK |
546 | (typically by calling |
547 | .BR pthread_exit (3)). | |
2dad4c59 | 548 | .IP |
b902fe18 MK |
549 | Permission to dereference or read |
550 | .RB ( readlink (2)) | |
551 | this symbolic link is governed by a ptrace access mode | |
552 | .B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | |
553 | check; see | |
554 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
2dad4c59 | 555 | .IP |
eb9a0b2f | 556 | Under Linux 2.0 and earlier, |
69119dc7 | 557 | .I /proc/[pid]/exe |
c13182ef MK |
558 | is a pointer to the binary which was executed, |
559 | and appears as a symbolic link. | |
560 | A | |
fea681da MK |
561 | .BR readlink (2) |
562 | call on this file under Linux 2.0 returns a string in the format: | |
2dad4c59 | 563 | .IP |
59a40ed7 | 564 | [device]:inode |
2dad4c59 | 565 | .IP |
fea681da MK |
566 | For example, [0301]:1502 would be inode 1502 on device major 03 (IDE, |
567 | MFM, etc. drives) minor 01 (first partition on the first drive). | |
2dad4c59 | 568 | .IP |
fea681da | 569 | .BR find (1) |
59a40ed7 MK |
570 | with the |
571 | .I \-inum | |
572 | option can be used to locate the file. | |
fea681da | 573 | .TP |
d4529654 | 574 | .I /proc/[pid]/fd/ |
fea681da MK |
575 | This is a subdirectory containing one entry for each file which the |
576 | process has open, named by its file descriptor, and which is a | |
c13182ef | 577 | symbolic link to the actual file. |
f78ed33a | 578 | Thus, 0 is standard input, 1 standard output, 2 standard error, and so on. |
2dad4c59 | 579 | .IP |
f75715e0 MK |
580 | For file descriptors for pipes and sockets, |
581 | the entries will be symbolic links whose content is the | |
582 | file type with the inode. | |
d4529654 MF |
583 | A |
584 | .BR readlink (2) | |
585 | call on this file returns a string in the format: | |
2dad4c59 | 586 | .IP |
d4529654 | 587 | type:[inode] |
2dad4c59 | 588 | .IP |
f75715e0 MK |
589 | For example, |
590 | .I socket:[2248868] | |
591 | will be a socket and its inode is 2248868. | |
592 | For sockets, that inode can be used to find more information | |
593 | in one of the files under | |
d4529654 | 594 | .IR /proc/net/ . |
2dad4c59 | 595 | .IP |
2b7a2ac5 MK |
596 | For file descriptors that have no corresponding inode |
597 | (e.g., file descriptors produced by | |
89e284a2 | 598 | .BR bpf (2), |
2b7a2ac5 MK |
599 | .BR epoll_create (2), |
600 | .BR eventfd (2), | |
601 | .BR inotify_init (2), | |
89e284a2 | 602 | .BR perf_event_open (2), |
2b7a2ac5 | 603 | .BR signalfd (2), |
89e284a2 | 604 | .BR timerfd_create (2), |
2b7a2ac5 | 605 | and |
e8675558 | 606 | .BR userfaultfd (2)), |
2b7a2ac5 | 607 | the entry will be a symbolic link with contents of the form |
2dad4c59 | 608 | .IP |
2b7a2ac5 | 609 | anon_inode:<file-type> |
2dad4c59 | 610 | .IP |
e2a5929d | 611 | In many cases (but not all), the |
2b7a2ac5 MK |
612 | .I file-type |
613 | is surrounded by square brackets. | |
2dad4c59 | 614 | .IP |
2b7a2ac5 MK |
615 | For example, an epoll file descriptor will have a symbolic link |
616 | whose content is the string | |
617 | .IR "anon_inode:[eventpoll]" . | |
2dad4c59 | 618 | .IP |
d4529654 | 619 | .\"The following was still true as at kernel 2.6.13 |
afcaf646 | 620 | In a multithreaded process, the contents of this directory |
c13182ef | 621 | are not available if the main thread has already terminated |
afcaf646 MK |
622 | (typically by calling |
623 | .BR pthread_exit (3)). | |
2dad4c59 | 624 | .IP |
20c1a631 MK |
625 | Programs that take a filename as a command-line argument, |
626 | but don't take input from standard input if no argument is supplied, | |
627 | and programs that write to a file named as a command-line argument, | |
628 | but don't send their output to standard output | |
59a40ed7 | 629 | if no argument is supplied, can nevertheless be made to use |
20c1a631 MK |
630 | standard input or standard output by using |
631 | .IR /proc/[pid]/fd | |
632 | files as command-line arguments. | |
59a40ed7 MK |
633 | For example, assuming that |
634 | .I \-i | |
635 | is the flag designating an input file and | |
636 | .I \-o | |
637 | is the flag designating an output file: | |
37d5e699 | 638 | .IP |
a08ea57c | 639 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 640 | .EX |
b43a3b30 | 641 | .RB "$" " foobar \-i /proc/self/fd/0 \-o /proc/self/fd/1 ..." |
37d5e699 | 642 | .EE |
a08ea57c | 643 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 644 | .IP |
fea681da MK |
645 | and you have a working filter. |
646 | .\" The following is not true in my tests (MTK): | |
647 | .\" Note that this will not work for | |
648 | .\" programs that seek on their files, as the files in the fd directory | |
649 | .\" are not seekable. | |
2dad4c59 | 650 | .IP |
59a40ed7 MK |
651 | .I /proc/self/fd/N |
652 | is approximately the same as | |
653 | .I /dev/fd/N | |
008f1ecc | 654 | in some UNIX and UNIX-like systems. |
c13182ef | 655 | Most Linux MAKEDEV scripts symbolically link |
59a40ed7 MK |
656 | .I /dev/fd |
657 | to | |
658 | .IR /proc/self/fd , | |
659 | in fact. | |
2dad4c59 | 660 | .IP |
59a40ed7 MK |
661 | Most systems provide symbolic links |
662 | .IR /dev/stdin , | |
663 | .IR /dev/stdout , | |
664 | and | |
665 | .IR /dev/stderr , | |
666 | which respectively link to the files | |
667 | .IR 0 , | |
668 | .IR 1 , | |
669 | and | |
670 | .IR 2 | |
671 | in | |
672 | .IR /proc/self/fd . | |
673 | Thus the example command above could be written as: | |
37d5e699 | 674 | .PP |
59a40ed7 | 675 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 676 | .EX |
b43a3b30 | 677 | .RB "$" " foobar \-i /dev/stdin \-o /dev/stdout ..." |
37d5e699 | 678 | .EE |
59a40ed7 | 679 | .in |
138a191e MK |
680 | .IP |
681 | Permission to dereference or read | |
682 | .RB ( readlink (2)) | |
683 | the symbolic links in this directory is governed by a ptrace access mode | |
684 | .B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | |
685 | check; see | |
686 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
69ab425e | 687 | .TP |
7e07d950 | 688 | .IR /proc/[pid]/fdinfo/ " (since Linux 2.6.22)" |
69ab425e MK |
689 | This is a subdirectory containing one entry for each file which the |
690 | process has open, named by its file descriptor. | |
0275956d | 691 | The files in this directory are readable only by the owner of the process. |
69ab425e | 692 | The contents of each file can be read to obtain information |
0275956d MK |
693 | about the corresponding file descriptor. |
694 | The content depends on the type of file referred to by the | |
d9cb0d7d | 695 | corresponding file descriptor. |
2dad4c59 | 696 | .IP |
0275956d | 697 | For regular files and directories, we see something like: |
37d5e699 | 698 | .IP |
69ab425e | 699 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 700 | .EX |
69ab425e MK |
701 | .RB "$" " cat /proc/12015/fdinfo/4" |
702 | pos: 1000 | |
703 | flags: 01002002 | |
0275956d | 704 | mnt_id: 21 |
37d5e699 | 705 | .EE |
69ab425e | 706 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 707 | .IP |
9599cbb3 MK |
708 | The fields are as follows: |
709 | .RS | |
710 | .TP | |
69ab425e | 711 | .I pos |
9599cbb3 MK |
712 | This is a decimal number showing the file offset. |
713 | .TP | |
69ab425e | 714 | .I flags |
9599cbb3 | 715 | This is an octal number that displays the |
69ab425e MK |
716 | file access mode and file status flags (see |
717 | .BR open (2)). | |
d7e537ce MK |
718 | If the close-on-exec file descriptor flag is set, then |
719 | .I flags | |
720 | will also include the value | |
721 | .BR O_CLOEXEC . | |
2dad4c59 | 722 | .IP |
d7e537ce MK |
723 | Before Linux 3.1, |
724 | .\" commit 1117f72ea0217ba0cc19f05adbbd8b9a397f5ab7 | |
725 | this field incorrectly displayed the setting of | |
726 | .B O_CLOEXEC | |
727 | at the time the file was opened, | |
728 | rather than the current setting of the close-on-exec flag. | |
9599cbb3 MK |
729 | .TP |
730 | .I | |
0275956d | 731 | .I mnt_id |
9599cbb3 | 732 | This field, present since Linux 3.15, |
0275956d MK |
733 | .\" commit 49d063cb353265c3af701bab215ac438ca7df36d |
734 | is the ID of the mount point containing this file. | |
735 | See the description of | |
736 | .IR /proc/[pid]/mountinfo . | |
9599cbb3 MK |
737 | .RE |
738 | .IP | |
6e7622ee MK |
739 | For eventfd file descriptors (see |
740 | .BR eventfd (2)), | |
b6a7fd50 MK |
741 | we see (since Linux 3.8) |
742 | .\" commit cbac5542d48127b546a23d816380a7926eee1c25 | |
743 | the following fields: | |
2dad4c59 | 744 | .IP |
6e7622ee | 745 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 746 | .EX |
6e7622ee MK |
747 | pos: 0 |
748 | flags: 02 | |
749 | mnt_id: 10 | |
750 | eventfd-count: 40 | |
37d5e699 | 751 | .EE |
6e7622ee | 752 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 753 | .IP |
6e7622ee MK |
754 | .I eventfd-count |
755 | is the current value of the eventfd counter, in hexadecimal. | |
2dad4c59 | 756 | .IP |
58d375dd MK |
757 | For epoll file descriptors (see |
758 | .BR epoll (7)), | |
b6a7fd50 MK |
759 | we see (since Linux 3.8) |
760 | .\" commit 138d22b58696c506799f8de759804083ff9effae | |
761 | the following fields: | |
2dad4c59 | 762 | .IP |
58d375dd | 763 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 764 | .EX |
58d375dd MK |
765 | pos: 0 |
766 | flags: 02 | |
767 | mnt_id: 10 | |
768 | tfd: 9 events: 19 data: 74253d2500000009 | |
769 | tfd: 7 events: 19 data: 74253d2500000007 | |
37d5e699 | 770 | .EE |
58d375dd | 771 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 772 | .IP |
58d375dd MK |
773 | Each of the lines beginning |
774 | .I tfd | |
775 | describes one of the file descriptors being monitored via | |
776 | the epoll file descriptor (see | |
777 | .BR epoll_ctl (2) | |
778 | for some details). | |
779 | The | |
780 | .IR tfd | |
781 | field is the number of the file descriptor. | |
782 | The | |
783 | .I events | |
784 | field is a hexadecimal mask of the events being monitored for this file | |
785 | descriptor. | |
786 | The | |
787 | .I data | |
788 | field is the data value associated with this file descriptor. | |
2dad4c59 | 789 | .IP |
f8a14cac MK |
790 | For signalfd file descriptors (see |
791 | .BR signalfd (2)), | |
b6a7fd50 MK |
792 | we see (since Linux 3.8) |
793 | .\" commit 138d22b58696c506799f8de759804083ff9effae | |
794 | the following fields: | |
2dad4c59 | 795 | .IP |
f8a14cac | 796 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 797 | .EX |
f8a14cac MK |
798 | pos: 0 |
799 | flags: 02 | |
800 | mnt_id: 10 | |
801 | sigmask: 0000000000000006 | |
37d5e699 | 802 | .EE |
f8a14cac | 803 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 804 | .IP |
f8a14cac MK |
805 | .I sigmask |
806 | is the hexadecimal mask of signals that are accepted via this | |
807 | signalfd file descriptor. | |
808 | (In this example, bits 2 and 3 are set, corresponding to the signals | |
809 | .B SIGINT | |
810 | and | |
811 | .BR SIGQUIT ; | |
812 | see | |
813 | .BR signal (7).) | |
2dad4c59 | 814 | .IP |
4e77145c MK |
815 | For inotify file descriptors (see |
816 | .BR inotify (7)), | |
817 | we see (since Linux 3.8) | |
818 | the following fields: | |
2dad4c59 | 819 | .IP |
4e77145c | 820 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 821 | .EX |
4e77145c MK |
822 | pos: 0 |
823 | flags: 00 | |
824 | mnt_id: 11 | |
825 | inotify wd:2 ino:7ef82a sdev:800001 mask:800afff ignored_mask:0 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:2af87e00220ffd73 | |
826 | inotify wd:1 ino:192627 sdev:800001 mask:800afff ignored_mask:0 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:27261900802dfd73 | |
37d5e699 | 827 | .EE |
4e77145c | 828 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 829 | .IP |
4e77145c MK |
830 | Each of the lines beginning with "inotify" displays information about |
831 | one file or directory that is being monitored. | |
832 | The fields in this line are as follows: | |
833 | .RS | |
834 | .TP | |
835 | .I wd | |
836 | A watch descriptor number (in decimal). | |
837 | .TP | |
838 | .I ino | |
839 | The inode number of the target file (in hexadecimal). | |
840 | .TP | |
841 | .I sdev | |
842 | The ID of the device where the target file resides (in hexadecimal). | |
843 | .TP | |
844 | .I mask | |
845 | The mask of events being monitored for the target file (in hexadecimal). | |
846 | .RE | |
847 | .IP | |
848 | If the kernel was built with exportfs support, the path to the target | |
849 | file is exposed as a file handle, via three hexadecimal fields: | |
850 | .IR fhandle-bytes , | |
851 | .IR fhandle-type , | |
852 | and | |
853 | .IR f_handle . | |
2dad4c59 | 854 | .IP |
e2444bcb MK |
855 | For fanotify file descriptors (see |
856 | .BR fanotify (7)), | |
857 | we see (since Linux 3.8) | |
858 | the following fields: | |
2dad4c59 | 859 | .IP |
e2444bcb | 860 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 861 | .EX |
e2444bcb MK |
862 | pos: 0 |
863 | flags: 02 | |
864 | mnt_id: 11 | |
865 | fanotify flags:0 event-flags:88002 | |
866 | fanotify ino:19264f sdev:800001 mflags:0 mask:1 ignored_mask:0 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:4f261900a82dfd73 | |
37d5e699 | 867 | .EE |
e2444bcb | 868 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 869 | .IP |
e2444bcb MK |
870 | The fourth line displays information defined when the fanotify group |
871 | was created via | |
872 | .BR fanotify_init (2): | |
873 | .RS | |
874 | .TP | |
875 | .I flags | |
876 | The | |
877 | .I flags | |
878 | argument given to | |
879 | .BR fanotify_init (2) | |
880 | (expressed in hexadecimal). | |
881 | .TP | |
882 | .I event-flags | |
883 | The | |
884 | .I event_f_flags | |
885 | argument given to | |
886 | .BR fanotify_init (2) | |
887 | (expressed in hexadecimal). | |
888 | .RE | |
889 | .IP | |
890 | Each additional line shown in the file contains information | |
891 | about one of the marks in the fanotify group. | |
892 | Most of these fields are as for inotify, except: | |
893 | .RS | |
894 | .TP | |
895 | .I mflags | |
896 | The flags associated with the mark | |
897 | (expressed in hexadecimal). | |
898 | .TP | |
899 | .I mask | |
900 | The events mask for this mark | |
901 | (expressed in hexadecimal). | |
902 | .TP | |
903 | .I ignored_mask | |
904 | The mask of events that are ignored for this mark | |
905 | (expressed in hexadecimal). | |
906 | .RE | |
907 | .IP | |
908 | For details on these fields, see | |
909 | .BR fanotify_mark (2). | |
0ca2fc4d | 910 | .TP |
93401860 MK |
911 | .IR /proc/[pid]/gid_map " (since Linux 3.5)" |
912 | See | |
913 | .BR user_namespaces (7). | |
914 | .TP | |
0ca2fc4d | 915 | .IR /proc/[pid]/io " (since kernel 2.6.20)" |
68f11066 MK |
916 | .\" commit 7c3ab7381e79dfc7db14a67c6f4f3285664e1ec2 |
917 | This file contains I/O statistics for the process, for example: | |
37d5e699 | 918 | .IP |
0ca2fc4d | 919 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 920 | .EX |
0ca2fc4d PS |
921 | .RB "#" " cat /proc/3828/io" |
922 | rchar: 323934931 | |
923 | wchar: 323929600 | |
924 | syscr: 632687 | |
925 | syscw: 632675 | |
926 | read_bytes: 0 | |
927 | write_bytes: 323932160 | |
928 | cancelled_write_bytes: 0 | |
37d5e699 | 929 | .EE |
0ca2fc4d | 930 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 931 | .IP |
0ca2fc4d PS |
932 | The fields are as follows: |
933 | .RS | |
68f11066 MK |
934 | .TP |
935 | .IR rchar ": characters read" | |
0ca2fc4d PS |
936 | The number of bytes which this task has caused to be read from storage. |
937 | This is simply the sum of bytes which this process passed to | |
938 | .BR read (2) | |
68f11066 | 939 | and similar system calls. |
11256884 | 940 | It includes things such as terminal I/O and |
68f11066 MK |
941 | is unaffected by whether or not actual |
942 | physical disk I/O was required (the read might have been satisfied from | |
0ca2fc4d | 943 | pagecache). |
68f11066 MK |
944 | .TP |
945 | .IR wchar ": characters written" | |
0ca2fc4d PS |
946 | The number of bytes which this task has caused, or shall cause to be written |
947 | to disk. | |
948 | Similar caveats apply here as with | |
949 | .IR rchar . | |
68f11066 MK |
950 | .TP |
951 | .IR syscr ": read syscalls" | |
952 | Attempt to count the number of read I/O operations\(emthat is, | |
953 | system calls such as | |
0ca2fc4d PS |
954 | .BR read (2) |
955 | and | |
956 | .BR pread (2). | |
68f11066 MK |
957 | .TP |
958 | .IR syscw ": write syscalls" | |
959 | Attempt to count the number of write I/O operations\(emthat is, | |
960 | system calls such as | |
0ca2fc4d PS |
961 | .BR write (2) |
962 | and | |
963 | .BR pwrite (2). | |
68f11066 MK |
964 | .TP |
965 | .IR read_bytes ": bytes read" | |
0ca2fc4d PS |
966 | Attempt to count the number of bytes which this process really did cause to |
967 | be fetched from the storage layer. | |
968 | This is accurate for block-backed filesystems. | |
68f11066 MK |
969 | .TP |
970 | .IR write_bytes ": bytes written" | |
0ca2fc4d PS |
971 | Attempt to count the number of bytes which this process caused to be sent to |
972 | the storage layer. | |
68f11066 | 973 | .TP |
0ca2fc4d | 974 | .IR cancelled_write_bytes : |
0ca2fc4d PS |
975 | The big inaccuracy here is truncate. |
976 | If a process writes 1MB to a file and then deletes the file, | |
977 | it will in fact perform no writeout. | |
978 | But it will have been accounted as having caused 1MB of write. | |
68f11066 | 979 | In other words: this field represents the number of bytes which this process |
0ca2fc4d | 980 | caused to not happen, by truncating pagecache. |
68f11066 | 981 | A task can cause "negative" I/O too. |
0ca2fc4d | 982 | If this task truncates some dirty pagecache, |
68f11066 MK |
983 | some I/O which another task has been accounted for |
984 | (in its | |
985 | .IR write_bytes ) | |
986 | will not be happening. | |
987 | .RE | |
0ca2fc4d PS |
988 | .IP |
989 | .IR Note : | |
68f11066 | 990 | In the current implementation, things are a bit racy on 32-bit systems: |
0ca2fc4d PS |
991 | if process A reads process B's |
992 | .I /proc/[pid]/io | |
68f11066 | 993 | while process B is updating one of these 64-bit counters, |
0ca2fc4d | 994 | process A could see an intermediate result. |
2dad4c59 | 995 | .IP |
d8e2972a MK |
996 | Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode |
997 | .B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | |
998 | check; see | |
999 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
f6e17121 | 1000 | .TP |
7e07d950 | 1001 | .IR /proc/[pid]/limits " (since Linux 2.6.24)" |
69ab425e MK |
1002 | This file displays the soft limit, hard limit, and units of measurement |
1003 | for each of the process's resource limits (see | |
1004 | .BR getrlimit (2)). | |
1005 | Up to and including Linux 2.6.35, | |
1006 | this file is protected to allow reading only by the real UID of the process. | |
1007 | Since Linux 2.6.36, | |
1008 | .\" commit 3036e7b490bf7878c6dae952eec5fb87b1106589 | |
1009 | this file is readable by all users on the system. | |
df2a8576 MK |
1010 | .\" FIXME Describe /proc/[pid]/loginuid |
1011 | .\" Added in 2.6.11; updating requires CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL | |
1012 | .\" CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL | |
b4f89985 PE |
1013 | .TP |
1014 | .IR /proc/[pid]/map_files/ " (since kernel 3.3) | |
18cdd0ac MK |
1015 | .\" commit 640708a2cff7f81e246243b0073c66e6ece7e53e |
1016 | This subdirectory contains entries corresponding to memory-mapped | |
b4f89985 PE |
1017 | files (see |
1018 | .BR mmap (2)). | |
18cdd0ac MK |
1019 | Entries are named by memory region start and end |
1020 | address pair (expressed as hexadecimal numbers), | |
1021 | and are symbolic links to the mapped files themselves. | |
1022 | Here is an example, with the output wrapped and reformatted to fit on an 80-column display: | |
37d5e699 | 1023 | .IP |
b4f89985 | 1024 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 1025 | .EX |
f2aa4dcc | 1026 | .RB "#" " ls -l /proc/self/map_files/" |
18cdd0ac | 1027 | lr\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-. 1 root root 64 Apr 16 21:31 |
9bc87ed0 | 1028 | 3252e00000\-3252e20000 \-> /usr/lib64/ld\-2.15.so |
b4f89985 | 1029 | \&... |
37d5e699 | 1030 | .EE |
b4f89985 | 1031 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 1032 | .IP |
b4f89985 | 1033 | Although these entries are present for memory regions that were |
d6a56978 | 1034 | mapped with the |
b4f89985 | 1035 | .BR MAP_FILE |
18cdd0ac | 1036 | flag, the way anonymous shared memory (regions created with the |
b4f89985 PE |
1037 | .B MAP_ANON | MAP_SHARED |
1038 | flags) | |
1039 | is implemented in Linux | |
18cdd0ac MK |
1040 | means that such regions also appear on this directory. |
1041 | Here is an example where the target file is the deleted | |
1042 | .I /dev/zero | |
1043 | one: | |
37d5e699 | 1044 | .IP |
b4f89985 | 1045 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 1046 | .EX |
18cdd0ac MK |
1047 | lrw\-\-\-\-\-\-\-. 1 root root 64 Apr 16 21:33 |
1048 | 7fc075d2f000\-7fc075e6f000 \-> /dev/zero (deleted) | |
37d5e699 | 1049 | .EE |
b4f89985 | 1050 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 1051 | .IP |
b4f89985 PE |
1052 | This directory appears only if the |
1053 | .B CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE | |
1054 | kernel configuration option is enabled. | |
f2aa4dcc MK |
1055 | Privilege |
1056 | .RB ( CAP_SYS_ADMIN ) | |
1057 | .\" FIXME | |
1058 | .\" This may change. See the mail thread | |
43d42cc0 | 1059 | .\" "[RFC][PATCH v2] procfs: Always expose /proc/<pid>/map_files/ and make it readable" |
f2aa4dcc MK |
1060 | .\" from Jan 2015 |
1061 | is required to view the contents of this directory. | |
fea681da | 1062 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 1063 | .I /proc/[pid]/maps |
fea681da MK |
1064 | A file containing the currently mapped memory regions and their access |
1065 | permissions. | |
bbf9f397 MK |
1066 | See |
1067 | .BR mmap (2) | |
1068 | for some further information about memory mappings. | |
2dad4c59 | 1069 | .IP |
aee2f0bf MK |
1070 | Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode |
1071 | .B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | |
1072 | check; see | |
1073 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
2dad4c59 | 1074 | .IP |
dd0c3b96 | 1075 | The format of the file is: |
c1a022dc MK |
1076 | .IP |
1077 | .in 4n | |
1078 | .EX | |
21781757 | 1079 | .I "address perms offset dev inode pathname" |
9bc87ed0 MK |
1080 | 00400000\-00452000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 173521 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon |
1081 | 00651000\-00652000 r--p 00051000 08:02 173521 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon | |
1082 | 00652000\-00655000 rw-p 00052000 08:02 173521 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon | |
1083 | 00e03000\-00e24000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] | |
1084 | 00e24000\-011f7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] | |
182090db | 1085 | \&... |
9bc87ed0 MK |
1086 | 35b1800000\-35b1820000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 135522 /usr/lib64/ld\-2.15.so |
1087 | 35b1a1f000\-35b1a20000 r--p 0001f000 08:02 135522 /usr/lib64/ld\-2.15.so | |
1088 | 35b1a20000\-35b1a21000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 135522 /usr/lib64/ld\-2.15.so | |
1089 | 35b1a21000\-35b1a22000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 | |
1090 | 35b1c00000\-35b1dac000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 135870 /usr/lib64/libc\-2.15.so | |
1091 | 35b1dac000\-35b1fac000 ---p 001ac000 08:02 135870 /usr/lib64/libc\-2.15.so | |
1092 | 35b1fac000\-35b1fb0000 r--p 001ac000 08:02 135870 /usr/lib64/libc\-2.15.so | |
1093 | 35b1fb0000\-35b1fb2000 rw-p 001b0000 08:02 135870 /usr/lib64/libc\-2.15.so | |
182090db | 1094 | \&... |
9bc87ed0 | 1095 | f2c6ff8c000\-7f2c7078c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack:986] |
182090db | 1096 | \&... |
9bc87ed0 MK |
1097 | 7fffb2c0d000\-7fffb2c2e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] |
1098 | 7fffb2d48000\-7fffb2d49000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] | |
c1a022dc | 1099 | .EE |
21781757 | 1100 | .in |
c1a022dc | 1101 | .IP |
7d2e6d74 | 1102 | The |
3eb8c588 MK |
1103 | .I address |
1104 | field is the address space in the process that the mapping occupies. | |
1105 | The | |
1106 | .I perms | |
1107 | field is a set of permissions: | |
2dad4c59 | 1108 | .IP |
37d5e699 MK |
1109 | .in +4 |
1110 | .EX | |
fea681da MK |
1111 | r = read |
1112 | w = write | |
1113 | x = execute | |
1114 | s = shared | |
1115 | p = private (copy on write) | |
37d5e699 | 1116 | .EE |
fea681da | 1117 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 1118 | .IP |
3eb8c588 MK |
1119 | The |
1120 | .I offset | |
b844cf04 | 1121 | field is the offset into the file/whatever; |
3eb8c588 MK |
1122 | .I dev |
1123 | is the device | |
dd0c3b96 | 1124 | (major:minor); |
3eb8c588 MK |
1125 | .I inode |
1126 | is the inode on that device. | |
59a40ed7 | 1127 | 0 indicates that no inode is associated with the memory region, |
16e64bae | 1128 | as would be the case with BSS (uninitialized data). |
2dad4c59 | 1129 | .IP |
3eb8c588 MK |
1130 | The |
1131 | .I pathname | |
1132 | field will usually be the file that is backing the mapping. | |
491ea6f1 | 1133 | For ELF files, |
3eb8c588 MK |
1134 | you can easily coordinate with the |
1135 | .I offset | |
1136 | field by looking at the | |
491ea6f1 MK |
1137 | Offset field in the ELF program headers |
1138 | .RI ( "readelf\ \-l" ). | |
2dad4c59 | 1139 | .IP |
491ea6f1 | 1140 | There are additional helpful pseudo-paths: |
61b0b1f4 MK |
1141 | .RS 12 |
1142 | .TP | |
1143 | .IR [stack] | |
16e64bae | 1144 | The initial process's (also known as the main thread's) stack. |
61b0b1f4 | 1145 | .TP |
3eb8c588 | 1146 | .IR [stack:<tid>] " (since Linux 3.4)" |
a60894c5 | 1147 | .\" commit b76437579d1344b612cf1851ae610c636cec7db0 |
61b0b1f4 | 1148 | A thread's stack (where the |
3eb8c588 | 1149 | .IR <tid> |
61b0b1f4 | 1150 | is a thread ID). |
491ea6f1 | 1151 | It corresponds to the |
3eb8c588 | 1152 | .IR /proc/[pid]/task/[tid]/ |
37d32c38 | 1153 | path. |
61b0b1f4 | 1154 | .TP |
7d2e6d74 | 1155 | .IR [vdso] |
61b0b1f4 | 1156 | The virtual dynamically linked shared object. |
c56a0185 MK |
1157 | See |
1158 | .BR vdso (7). | |
61b0b1f4 | 1159 | .TP |
7d2e6d74 | 1160 | .IR [heap] |
61b0b1f4 MK |
1161 | The process's heap. |
1162 | .in | |
61b0b1f4 MK |
1163 | .RE |
1164 | .IP | |
3eb8c588 MK |
1165 | If the |
1166 | .I pathname | |
1167 | field is blank, | |
40382e5e MK |
1168 | this is an anonymous mapping as obtained via |
1169 | .BR mmap (2). | |
61b0b1f4 MK |
1170 | There is no easy way to coordinate this back to a process's source, |
1171 | short of running it through | |
491ea6f1 MK |
1172 | .BR gdb (1), |
1173 | .BR strace (1), | |
1174 | or similar. | |
2dad4c59 | 1175 | .IP |
eb9a0b2f | 1176 | Under Linux 2.0, there is no field giving pathname. |
fea681da | 1177 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 1178 | .I /proc/[pid]/mem |
fea681da MK |
1179 | This file can be used to access the pages of a process's memory through |
1180 | .BR open (2), | |
1181 | .BR read (2), | |
1182 | and | |
ccb2bb0d | 1183 | .BR lseek (2). |
2dad4c59 | 1184 | .IP |
aee2f0bf MK |
1185 | Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode |
1186 | .B PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS | |
1187 | check; see | |
1188 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
b4e9ee8f | 1189 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 1190 | .IR /proc/[pid]/mountinfo " (since Linux 2.6.26)" |
b4e9ee8f | 1191 | .\" This info adapted from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |
fb4bdaa1 | 1192 | .\" commit 2d4d4864ac08caff5c204a752bd004eed4f08760 |
ef5b47f6 MK |
1193 | This file contains information about mount points |
1194 | in the process's mount namespace (see | |
1195 | .BR mount_namespaces (7)). | |
fb4bdaa1 MK |
1196 | It supplies various information |
1197 | (e.g., propagation state, root of mount for bind mounts, | |
1198 | identifier for each mount and its parent) that is missing from the (older) | |
1199 | .IR /proc/[pid]/mounts | |
1200 | file, and fixes various other problems with that file | |
1201 | (e.g., nonextensibility, | |
1202 | failure to distinguish per-mount versus per-superblock options). | |
2dad4c59 | 1203 | .IP |
fb4bdaa1 | 1204 | The file contains lines of the form: |
c1a022dc MK |
1205 | .IP |
1206 | .in 0n | |
1207 | .EX | |
0f619d1f | 1208 | 36 35 98:0 /mnt1 /mnt2 rw,noatime master:1 \- ext3 /dev/root rw,errors=continue |
b4e9ee8f | 1209 | (1)(2)(3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) |
c1a022dc MK |
1210 | .in |
1211 | .EE | |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1212 | .IP |
1213 | The numbers in parentheses are labels for the descriptions below: | |
3bc960c2 | 1214 | .RS 7 |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1215 | .TP 5 |
1216 | (1) | |
0f619d1f | 1217 | mount ID: a unique ID for the mount (may be reused after |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1218 | .BR umount (2)). |
1219 | .TP | |
1220 | (2) | |
0f619d1f MK |
1221 | parent ID: the ID of the parent mount |
1222 | (or of self for the top of the mount tree). | |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1223 | .TP |
1224 | (3) | |
0f619d1f | 1225 | major:minor: the value of |
b4e9ee8f | 1226 | .I st_dev |
0f619d1f | 1227 | for files on this filesystem (see |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1228 | .BR stat (2)). |
1229 | .TP | |
1230 | (4) | |
0f619d1f | 1231 | root: the pathname of the directory in the filesystem |
8d857fcb | 1232 | which forms the root of this mount. |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1233 | .TP |
1234 | (5) | |
ebdc66e2 | 1235 | mount point: the pathname of the mount point relative |
0f619d1f | 1236 | to the process's root directory. |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1237 | .TP |
1238 | (6) | |
1239 | mount options: per-mount options. | |
1240 | .TP | |
1241 | (7) | |
0f619d1f | 1242 | optional fields: zero or more fields of the form "tag[:value]"; see below. |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1243 | .TP |
1244 | (8) | |
0f619d1f | 1245 | separator: the end of the optional fields is marked by a single hyphen. |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1246 | .TP |
1247 | (9) | |
0f619d1f | 1248 | filesystem type: the filesystem type in the form "type[.subtype]". |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1249 | .TP |
1250 | (10) | |
9ee4a2b6 | 1251 | mount source: filesystem-specific information or "none". |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1252 | .TP |
1253 | (11) | |
68d86eac | 1254 | super options: per-superblock options. |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1255 | .RE |
1256 | .IP | |
966b5839 MK |
1257 | Currently, the possible optional fields are |
1258 | .IR shared , | |
1259 | .IR master , | |
1260 | .IR propagate_from , | |
1261 | and | |
1262 | .IR unbindable . | |
1263 | See | |
1264 | .BR mount_namespaces (7) | |
1265 | for a description of these fields. | |
0f619d1f MK |
1266 | Parsers should ignore all unrecognized optional fields. |
1267 | .IP | |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1268 | For more information on mount propagation see: |
1269 | .I Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt | |
66a9882e | 1270 | in the Linux kernel source tree. |
b4e9ee8f | 1271 | .TP |
cea61382 | 1272 | .IR /proc/[pid]/mounts " (since Linux 2.4.19)" |
226cb3a8 | 1273 | This file lists all the filesystems currently mounted in the |
ef5b47f6 MK |
1274 | process's mount namespace (see |
1275 | .BR mount_namespaces (7)). | |
cea61382 MK |
1276 | The format of this file is documented in |
1277 | .BR fstab (5). | |
2dad4c59 | 1278 | .IP |
cea61382 MK |
1279 | Since kernel version 2.6.15, this file is pollable: |
1280 | after opening the file for reading, a change in this file | |
9ee4a2b6 | 1281 | (i.e., a filesystem mount or unmount) causes |
cea61382 | 1282 | .BR select (2) |
226cb3a8 | 1283 | to mark the file descriptor as having an exceptional condition, and |
cea61382 MK |
1284 | .BR poll (2) |
1285 | and | |
1286 | .BR epoll_wait (2) | |
226cb3a8 MK |
1287 | mark the file as having a priority event |
1288 | .RB ( POLLPRI ). | |
1289 | (Before Linux 2.6.30, | |
1290 | a change in this file was indicated by the file descriptor | |
1291 | being marked as readable for | |
1292 | .BR select (2), | |
1293 | and being marked as having an error condition for | |
1294 | .BR poll (2) | |
1295 | and | |
1296 | .BR epoll_wait (2).) | |
cea61382 | 1297 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 1298 | .IR /proc/[pid]/mountstats " (since Linux 2.6.17)" |
783a6233 | 1299 | This file exports information (statistics, configuration information) |
ef5b47f6 MK |
1300 | about the mount points in the process's mount namespace (see |
1301 | .BR mount_namespaces (7)). | |
b4e9ee8f | 1302 | Lines in this file have the form: |
37d5e699 MK |
1303 | .IP |
1304 | .in +4n | |
1305 | .EX | |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1306 | device /dev/sda7 mounted on /home with fstype ext3 [statistics] |
1307 | ( 1 ) ( 2 ) (3 ) (4) | |
37d5e699 MK |
1308 | .EE |
1309 | .in | |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1310 | .IP |
1311 | The fields in each line are: | |
3bc960c2 | 1312 | .RS 7 |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1313 | .TP 5 |
1314 | (1) | |
1315 | The name of the mounted device | |
1316 | (or "nodevice" if there is no corresponding device). | |
1317 | .TP | |
1318 | (2) | |
9ee4a2b6 | 1319 | The mount point within the filesystem tree. |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1320 | .TP |
1321 | (3) | |
9ee4a2b6 | 1322 | The filesystem type. |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1323 | .TP |
1324 | (4) | |
1325 | Optional statistics and configuration information. | |
9ee4a2b6 | 1326 | Currently (as at Linux 2.6.26), only NFS filesystems export |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1327 | information via this field. |
1328 | .RE | |
1329 | .IP | |
90878f7c | 1330 | This file is readable only by the owner of the process. |
b4e9ee8f | 1331 | .TP |
2d3fb75b | 1332 | .IR /proc/[pid]/net " (since Linux 2.6.25)" |
9fb88bc8 MK |
1333 | See the description of |
1334 | .IR /proc/net . | |
1335 | .TP | |
b4a185e5 | 1336 | .IR /proc/[pid]/ns/ " (since Linux 3.0)" |
2c4201f0 | 1337 | .\" See commit 6b4e306aa3dc94a0545eb9279475b1ab6209a31f |
b4a185e5 EB |
1338 | This is a subdirectory containing one entry for each namespace that |
1339 | supports being manipulated by | |
80e63655 | 1340 | .BR setns (2). |
cf8bfe6d MK |
1341 | For more information, see |
1342 | .BR namespaces (7). | |
b4a185e5 | 1343 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 1344 | .IR /proc/[pid]/numa_maps " (since Linux 2.6.14)" |
610f75cc MK |
1345 | See |
1346 | .BR numa (7). | |
7388733a | 1347 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 1348 | .IR /proc/[pid]/oom_adj " (since Linux 2.6.11)" |
b4e9ee8f | 1349 | This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which process |
0425de01 | 1350 | should be killed in an out-of-memory (OOM) situation. |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1351 | The kernel uses this value for a bit-shift operation of the process's |
1352 | .IR oom_score | |
1353 | value: | |
5b8dbfd4 MK |
1354 | valid values are in the range \-16 to +15, |
1355 | plus the special value \-17, | |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1356 | which disables OOM-killing altogether for this process. |
1357 | A positive score increases the likelihood of this | |
1358 | process being killed by the OOM-killer; | |
1359 | a negative score decreases the likelihood. | |
de8e9cc1 | 1360 | .IP |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1361 | The default value for this file is 0; |
1362 | a new process inherits its parent's | |
1363 | .I oom_adj | |
1364 | setting. | |
1365 | A process must be privileged | |
1366 | .RB ( CAP_SYS_RESOURCE ) | |
1367 | to update this file. | |
f2c8b197 MK |
1368 | .IP |
1369 | Since Linux 2.6.36, use of this file is deprecated in favor of | |
1370 | .IR /proc/[pid]/oom_score_adj . | |
b4e9ee8f | 1371 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 1372 | .IR /proc/[pid]/oom_score " (since Linux 2.6.11)" |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1373 | .\" See mm/oom_kill.c::badness() in the 2.6.25 sources |
1374 | This file displays the current score that the kernel gives to | |
1375 | this process for the purpose of selecting a process | |
1376 | for the OOM-killer. | |
1377 | A higher score means that the process is more likely to be | |
1378 | selected by the OOM-killer. | |
1379 | The basis for this score is the amount of memory used by the process, | |
1380 | with increases (+) or decreases (\-) for factors including: | |
1381 | .\" See mm/oom_kill.c::badness() in the 2.6.25 sources | |
1382 | .RS | |
1383 | .IP * 2 | |
1384 | whether the process creates a lot of children using | |
1385 | .BR fork (2) | |
1386 | (+); | |
1387 | .IP * | |
1388 | whether the process has been running a long time, | |
1389 | or has used a lot of CPU time (\-); | |
1390 | .IP * | |
1391 | whether the process has a low nice value (i.e., > 0) (+); | |
1392 | .IP * | |
1393 | whether the process is privileged (\-); and | |
1394 | .\" More precisely, if it has CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_RESOURCE | |
1395 | .IP * | |
1396 | whether the process is making direct hardware access (\-). | |
1397 | .\" More precisely, if it has CAP_SYS_RAWIO | |
1398 | .RE | |
1399 | .IP | |
1400 | The | |
1401 | .I oom_score | |
f2c8b197 MK |
1402 | also reflects the adjustment specified by the |
1403 | .I oom_score_adj | |
1404 | or | |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1405 | .I oom_adj |
1406 | setting for the process. | |
f2c8b197 MK |
1407 | .TP |
1408 | .IR /proc/[pid]/oom_score_adj " (since Linux 2.6.36)" | |
1409 | .\" Text taken from 3.7 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
1410 | This file can be used to adjust the badness heuristic used to select which | |
1411 | process gets killed in out-of-memory conditions. | |
2dad4c59 | 1412 | .IP |
f2c8b197 MK |
1413 | The badness heuristic assigns a value to each candidate task ranging from 0 |
1414 | (never kill) to 1000 (always kill) to determine which process is targeted. | |
1415 | The units are roughly a proportion along that range of | |
1416 | allowed memory the process may allocate from, | |
1417 | based on an estimation of its current memory and swap use. | |
1418 | For example, if a task is using all allowed memory, | |
1419 | its badness score will be 1000. | |
1420 | If it is using half of its allowed memory, its score will be 500. | |
2dad4c59 | 1421 | .IP |
f2c8b197 MK |
1422 | There is an additional factor included in the badness score: root |
1423 | processes are given 3% extra memory over other tasks. | |
2dad4c59 | 1424 | .IP |
f2c8b197 | 1425 | The amount of "allowed" memory depends on the context |
0633f951 | 1426 | in which the OOM-killer was called. |
f2c8b197 MK |
1427 | If it is due to the memory assigned to the allocating task's cpuset |
1428 | being exhausted, | |
1429 | the allowed memory represents the set of mems assigned to that | |
1430 | cpuset (see | |
1431 | .BR cpuset (7)). | |
1432 | If it is due to a mempolicy's node(s) being exhausted, | |
1433 | the allowed memory represents the set of mempolicy nodes. | |
1434 | If it is due to a memory limit (or swap limit) being reached, | |
1435 | the allowed memory is that configured limit. | |
1436 | Finally, if it is due to the entire system being out of memory, the | |
1437 | allowed memory represents all allocatable resources. | |
2dad4c59 | 1438 | .IP |
f2c8b197 | 1439 | The value of |
0633f951 | 1440 | .I oom_score_adj |
f2c8b197 MK |
1441 | is added to the badness score before it |
1442 | is used to determine which task to kill. | |
1443 | Acceptable values range from \-1000 | |
1444 | (OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) to +1000 (OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX). | |
0633f951 | 1445 | This allows user space to control the preference for OOM-killing, |
f2c8b197 | 1446 | ranging from always preferring a certain |
f082ada4 | 1447 | task or completely disabling it from OOM killing. |
f2c8b197 | 1448 | The lowest possible value, \-1000, is |
0633f951 | 1449 | equivalent to disabling OOM-killing entirely for that task, |
f2c8b197 | 1450 | since it will always report a badness score of 0. |
2dad4c59 | 1451 | .IP |
f2c8b197 MK |
1452 | Consequently, it is very simple for user space to define |
1453 | the amount of memory to consider for each task. | |
48ac01a7 | 1454 | Setting an |
f2c8b197 MK |
1455 | .I oom_score_adj |
1456 | value of +500, for example, | |
1457 | is roughly equivalent to allowing the remainder of tasks sharing the | |
1458 | same system, cpuset, mempolicy, or memory controller resources | |
1459 | to use at least 50% more memory. | |
1460 | A value of \-500, on the other hand, would be roughly | |
1461 | equivalent to discounting 50% of the task's | |
1462 | allowed memory from being considered as scoring against the task. | |
2dad4c59 | 1463 | .IP |
0633f951 | 1464 | For backward compatibility with previous kernels, |
f2c8b197 MK |
1465 | .I /proc/[pid]/oom_adj |
1466 | can still be used to tune the badness score. | |
1467 | Its value is | |
9f1b9726 | 1468 | scaled linearly with |
f2c8b197 | 1469 | .IR oom_score_adj . |
2dad4c59 | 1470 | .IP |
f2c8b197 MK |
1471 | Writing to |
1472 | .IR /proc/[pid]/oom_score_adj | |
1473 | or | |
1474 | .IR /proc/[pid]/oom_adj | |
1475 | will change the other with its scaled value. | |
b0aa1e51 MK |
1476 | .TP |
1477 | .IR /proc/[pid]/pagemap " (since Linux 2.6.25)" | |
1478 | This file shows the mapping of each of the process's virtual pages | |
1479 | into physical page frames or swap area. | |
1480 | It contains one 64-bit value for each virtual page, | |
1481 | with the bits set as follows: | |
1482 | .RS 12 | |
1483 | .TP | |
1484 | 63 | |
1485 | If set, the page is present in RAM. | |
1486 | .TP | |
1487 | 62 | |
1488 | If set, the page is in swap space | |
1489 | .TP | |
1490 | 61 (since Linux 3.5) | |
1491 | The page is a file-mapped page or a shared anonymous page. | |
1492 | .TP | |
9bc87ed0 | 1493 | 60\(en56 (since Linux 3.11) |
b0aa1e51 MK |
1494 | Zero |
1495 | .\" Not quite true; see commit 541c237c0923f567c9c4cabb8a81635baadc713f | |
1496 | .TP | |
b5301584 | 1497 | 55 (since Linux 3.11) |
b0aa1e51 MK |
1498 | PTE is soft-dirty |
1499 | (see the kernel source file | |
1500 | .IR Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt ). | |
1501 | .TP | |
9bc87ed0 | 1502 | 54\(en0 |
b0aa1e51 MK |
1503 | If the page is present in RAM (bit 63), then these bits |
1504 | provide the page frame number, which can be used to index | |
1505 | .IR /proc/kpageflags | |
1506 | and | |
1507 | .IR /proc/kpagecount . | |
1508 | If the page is present in swap (bit 62), | |
9bc87ed0 | 1509 | then bits 4\(en0 give the swap type, and bits 54\(en5 encode the swap offset. |
b0aa1e51 MK |
1510 | .RE |
1511 | .IP | |
9bc87ed0 | 1512 | Before Linux 3.11, bits 60\(en55 were |
b0aa1e51 MK |
1513 | used to encode the base-2 log of the page size. |
1514 | .IP | |
1515 | To employ | |
1516 | .IR /proc/[pid]/pagemap | |
1517 | efficiently, use | |
1518 | .IR /proc/[pid]/maps | |
1519 | to determine which areas of memory are actually mapped and seek | |
1520 | to skip over unmapped regions. | |
1521 | .IP | |
1522 | The | |
1523 | .IR /proc/[pid]/pagemap | |
1524 | file is present only if the | |
1525 | .B CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR | |
1526 | kernel configuration option is enabled. | |
2dad4c59 | 1527 | .IP |
aee2f0bf MK |
1528 | Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode |
1529 | .B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | |
1530 | check; see | |
1531 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
7c2905d1 MK |
1532 | .TP |
1533 | .IR /proc/[pid]/personality " (since Linux 2.6.28)" | |
1534 | .\" commit 478307230810d7e2a753ed220db9066dfdf88718 | |
1535 | This read-only file exposes the process's execution domain, as set by | |
1536 | .BR personality (2). | |
1537 | The value is displayed in hexadecimal notation. | |
2dad4c59 | 1538 | .IP |
4834ae91 MK |
1539 | Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode |
1540 | .B PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS | |
1541 | check; see | |
1542 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
fea681da | 1543 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 1544 | .I /proc/[pid]/root |
008f1ecc | 1545 | UNIX and Linux support the idea of a per-process root of the |
9ee4a2b6 | 1546 | filesystem, set by the |
fea681da | 1547 | .BR chroot (2) |
c13182ef MK |
1548 | system call. |
1549 | This file is a symbolic link that points to the process's | |
14d70713 MK |
1550 | root directory, and behaves in the same way as |
1551 | .IR exe , | |
1552 | and | |
1553 | .IR fd/* . | |
2dad4c59 | 1554 | .IP |
948f0ff4 | 1555 | Note however that this file is not merely a symbolic link. |
2b312241 MF |
1556 | It provides the same view of the filesystem (including namespaces and the |
1557 | set of per-process mounts) as the process itself. | |
a77efd58 MK |
1558 | An example illustrates this point. |
1559 | In one terminal, we start a shell in new user and mount namespaces, | |
1560 | and in that shell we create some new mount points: | |
2dad4c59 | 1561 | .IP |
a77efd58 | 1562 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 1563 | .EX |
a77efd58 MK |
1564 | $ \fBPS1='sh1# ' unshare \-Urnm\fP |
1565 | sh1# \fBmount \-t tmpfs tmpfs /etc\fP # Mount empty tmpfs at /etc | |
1566 | sh1# \fBmount \-\-bind /usr /dev\fP # Mount /usr at /dev | |
89f92905 | 1567 | sh1# \fBecho $$\fP |
a77efd58 | 1568 | 27123 |
37d5e699 | 1569 | .EE |
a77efd58 | 1570 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 1571 | .IP |
a77efd58 MK |
1572 | In a second terminal window, in the initial mount namespace, |
1573 | we look at the contents of the corresponding mounts in | |
1574 | the initial and new namespaces: | |
2dad4c59 | 1575 | .IP |
a77efd58 | 1576 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 1577 | .EX |
89f92905 | 1578 | $ \fBPS1='sh2# ' sudo sh\fP |
a77efd58 MK |
1579 | sh2# \fBls /etc | wc \-l\fP # In initial NS |
1580 | 309 | |
1581 | sh2# \fBls /proc/27123/root/etc | wc \-l\fP # /etc in other NS | |
1582 | 0 # The empty tmpfs dir | |
1583 | sh2# \fBls /dev | wc \-l\fP # In initial NS | |
1584 | 205 | |
1585 | sh2# \fBls /proc/27123/root/dev | wc \-l\fP # /dev in other NS | |
1586 | 11 # Actually bind | |
1587 | # mounted to /usr | |
1588 | sh2# \fBls /usr | wc \-l\fP # /usr in initial NS | |
1589 | 11 | |
37d5e699 | 1590 | .EE |
a77efd58 | 1591 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 1592 | .IP |
afcaf646 | 1593 | .\" The following was still true as at kernel 2.6.13 |
3ed7270e MK |
1594 | In a multithreaded process, the contents of the |
1595 | .I /proc/[pid]/root | |
1596 | symbolic link are not available if the main thread has already terminated | |
afcaf646 MK |
1597 | (typically by calling |
1598 | .BR pthread_exit (3)). | |
2dad4c59 | 1599 | .IP |
b902fe18 MK |
1600 | Permission to dereference or read |
1601 | .RB ( readlink (2)) | |
1602 | this symbolic link is governed by a ptrace access mode | |
1603 | .B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | |
1604 | check; see | |
1605 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
f34f0182 | 1606 | .\" FIXME Describe /proc/[pid]/projid_map |
43d42cc0 MK |
1607 | .\" Added in 3.7 |
1608 | .\" commit f76d207a66c3a53defea67e7d36c3eb1b7d6d61d | |
15869389 MK |
1609 | .TP |
1610 | .IR /proc/[pid]/seccomp " (Linux 2.6.12 to 2.6.22)" | |
1611 | This file can be used to read and change the process's | |
1612 | secure computing (seccomp) mode setting. | |
1613 | It contains the value 0 if the process is not in seccomp mode, | |
1614 | and 1 if the process is in strict seccomp mode (see | |
1615 | .BR seccomp (2)). | |
1616 | Writing 1 to this file places the process irreversibly in strict seccomp mode. | |
1617 | (Further attempts to write to the file fail with the | |
1618 | .B EPERM | |
1619 | error.) | |
2dad4c59 | 1620 | .IP |
15869389 MK |
1621 | In Linux 2.6.23, |
1622 | this file went away, to be replaced by the | |
1623 | .BR prctl (2) | |
1624 | .BR PR_GET_SECCOMP | |
1625 | and | |
1626 | .BR PR_SET_SECCOMP | |
1627 | operations (and later by | |
1628 | .BR seccomp (2) | |
1629 | and the | |
1630 | .I Seccomp | |
1631 | field in | |
1632 | .IR /proc/[pid]/status ). | |
69119dc7 | 1633 | .\" FIXME Describe /proc/[pid]/sessionid |
b3fb99e8 | 1634 | .\" commit 1e0bd7550ea9cf474b1ad4c6ff5729a507f75fdc |
b4e9ee8f | 1635 | .\" CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL |
43d42cc0 | 1636 | .\" Added in 2.6.25; read-only; only readable by real UID |
bea08fec | 1637 | .\" |
69119dc7 | 1638 | .\" FIXME Describe /proc/[pid]/sched |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1639 | .\" Added in 2.6.23 |
1640 | .\" CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, and additional fields if CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS | |
1641 | .\" Displays various scheduling parameters | |
1642 | .\" This file can be written, to reset stats | |
ef4f4031 | 1643 | .\" The set of fields exposed by this file have changed |
b3fb99e8 MK |
1644 | .\" significantly over time. |
1645 | .\" commit 43ae34cb4cd650d1eb4460a8253a8e747ba052ac | |
1646 | .\" | |
69119dc7 MK |
1647 | .\" FIXME Describe /proc/[pid]/schedstats and |
1648 | .\" /proc/[pid]/task/[tid]/schedstats | |
b4e9ee8f MK |
1649 | .\" Added in 2.6.9 |
1650 | .\" CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS | |
fea681da | 1651 | .TP |
5c92b1b7 | 1652 | .IR /proc/[pid]/setgroups " (since Linux 3.19)" |
ab28dba9 MK |
1653 | See |
1654 | .BR user_namespaces (7). | |
d520465b | 1655 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 1656 | .IR /proc/[pid]/smaps " (since Linux 2.6.14)" |
b07b19c4 | 1657 | This file shows memory consumption for each of the process's mappings. |
859503c3 MK |
1658 | (The |
1659 | .BR pmap (1) | |
1660 | command displays similar information, | |
1661 | in a form that may be easier for parsing.) | |
1f0add28 | 1662 | For each mapping there is a series of lines such as the following: |
37d5e699 | 1663 | .IP |
a08ea57c | 1664 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 1665 | .EX |
9bc87ed0 | 1666 | 00400000\-0048a000 r\-xp 00000000 fd:03 960637 /bin/bash |
95fe794d PG |
1667 | Size: 552 kB |
1668 | Rss: 460 kB | |
1669 | Pss: 100 kB | |
1670 | Shared_Clean: 452 kB | |
1671 | Shared_Dirty: 0 kB | |
1672 | Private_Clean: 8 kB | |
1673 | Private_Dirty: 0 kB | |
1674 | Referenced: 460 kB | |
1675 | Anonymous: 0 kB | |
1676 | AnonHugePages: 0 kB | |
4ad958e1 MK |
1677 | ShmemHugePages: 0 kB |
1678 | ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB | |
95fe794d PG |
1679 | Swap: 0 kB |
1680 | KernelPageSize: 4 kB | |
1681 | MMUPageSize: 4 kB | |
6861f8f0 MK |
1682 | KernelPageSize: 4 kB |
1683 | MMUPageSize: 4 kB | |
95fe794d | 1684 | Locked: 0 kB |
2f057281 | 1685 | ProtectionKey: 0 |
eb848708 | 1686 | VmFlags: rd ex mr mw me dw |
37d5e699 | 1687 | .EE |
a08ea57c | 1688 | .in |
2d3fb75b | 1689 | .IP |
b07b19c4 MK |
1690 | The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed |
1691 | for the mapping in | |
69119dc7 | 1692 | .IR /proc/[pid]/maps . |
c3d59262 | 1693 | The following lines show the size of the mapping, |
95fe794d | 1694 | the amount of the mapping that is currently resident in RAM ("Rss"), |
a5a3e91b | 1695 | the process's proportional share of this mapping ("Pss"), |
1f0add28 | 1696 | the number of clean and dirty shared pages in the mapping, |
c7ce200d | 1697 | and the number of clean and dirty private pages in the mapping. |
95fe794d | 1698 | "Referenced" indicates the amount of memory currently marked as |
1f0add28 MK |
1699 | referenced or accessed. |
1700 | "Anonymous" shows the amount of memory | |
1701 | that does not belong to any file. | |
1702 | "Swap" shows how much | |
95fe794d | 1703 | would-be-anonymous memory is also used, but out on swap. |
2dad4c59 | 1704 | .IP |
6861f8f0 MK |
1705 | The "KernelPageSize" line (available since Linux 2.6.29) |
1706 | is the page size used by the kernel to back the virtual memory area. | |
1f0add28 MK |
1707 | This matches the size used by the MMU in the majority of cases. |
1708 | However, one counter-example occurs on PPC64 kernels | |
6861f8f0 | 1709 | whereby a kernel using 64kB as a base page size may still use 4kB |
1f0add28 | 1710 | pages for the MMU on older processors. |
6861f8f0 MK |
1711 | To distinguish the two attributes, the "MMUPageSize" line |
1712 | (also available since Linux 2.6.29) | |
1713 | reports the page size used by the MMU. | |
2dad4c59 | 1714 | .IP |
95fe794d PG |
1715 | The "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory |
1716 | or not. | |
2dad4c59 | 1717 | .IP |
9b780b06 MK |
1718 | The "ProtectionKey" line (available since Linux 4.9, on x86 only) |
1719 | contains the memory protection key (see | |
1720 | .BR pkeys (7)) | |
1721 | associated with the virtual memory area. | |
1722 | This entry is present only if the kernel was built with the | |
1723 | .B CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS | |
1724 | configuration option. | |
2dad4c59 | 1725 | .IP |
eb848708 MK |
1726 | The "VmFlags" line (available since Linux 3.8) |
1727 | represents the kernel flags associated with the virtual memory area, | |
1728 | encoded using the following two-letter codes: | |
2dad4c59 | 1729 | .IP |
95fe794d | 1730 | rd - readable |
1f0add28 | 1731 | wr - writable |
95fe794d PG |
1732 | ex - executable |
1733 | sh - shared | |
1734 | mr - may read | |
1735 | mw - may write | |
1736 | me - may execute | |
1737 | ms - may share | |
723e333c | 1738 | gd - stack segment grows down |
95fe794d PG |
1739 | pf - pure PFN range |
1740 | dw - disabled write to the mapped file | |
1741 | lo - pages are locked in memory | |
1742 | io - memory mapped I/O area | |
1743 | sr - sequential read advise provided | |
1744 | rr - random read advise provided | |
1745 | dc - do not copy area on fork | |
1746 | de - do not expand area on remapping | |
1747 | ac - area is accountable | |
1748 | nr - swap space is not reserved for the area | |
1749 | ht - area uses huge tlb pages | |
1750 | nl - non-linear mapping | |
1751 | ar - architecture specific flag | |
1752 | dd - do not include area into core dump | |
1753 | sd - soft-dirty flag | |
1754 | mm - mixed map area | |
1755 | hg - huge page advise flag | |
1756 | nh - no-huge page advise flag | |
b5408a0f | 1757 | mg - mergeable advise flag |
2dad4c59 | 1758 | .IP |
be729d66 DH |
1759 | "ProtectionKey" field contains the memory protection key (see |
1760 | .BR pkeys (5)) | |
1761 | associated with the virtual memory area. | |
f12f1b9b | 1762 | Present only if the kernel was built with the |
be729d66 DH |
1763 | .B CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS |
1764 | configuration option. (since Linux 4.6) | |
2dad4c59 | 1765 | .IP |
e618d945 MK |
1766 | The |
1767 | .IR /proc/[pid]/smaps | |
1768 | file is present only if the | |
1769 | .B CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR | |
1770 | kernel configuration option is enabled. | |
b07b19c4 | 1771 | .TP |
67aac6fb MK |
1772 | .IR /proc/[pid]/stack " (since Linux 2.6.29)" |
1773 | .\" 2ec220e27f5040aec1e88901c1b6ea3d135787ad | |
1774 | This file provides a symbolic trace of the function calls in this | |
1775 | process's kernel stack. | |
1776 | This file is provided only if the kernel was built with the | |
1777 | .B CONFIG_STACKTRACE | |
1778 | configuration option. | |
2dad4c59 | 1779 | .IP |
4834ae91 MK |
1780 | Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode |
1781 | .B PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS | |
1782 | check; see | |
1783 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
67aac6fb | 1784 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 1785 | .I /proc/[pid]/stat |
c13182ef MK |
1786 | Status information about the process. |
1787 | This is used by | |
1788 | .BR ps (1). | |
082bf5b8 MK |
1789 | It is defined in the kernel source file |
1790 | .IR fs/proc/array.c "." | |
2dad4c59 | 1791 | .IP |
fea681da MK |
1792 | The fields, in order, with their proper |
1793 | .BR scanf (3) | |
b02b4b74 MK |
1794 | format specifiers, are listed below. |
1795 | Whether or not certain of these fields display valid information is governed by | |
1796 | a ptrace access mode | |
1797 | .BR PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS "\ |\ " PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT | |
1798 | check (refer to | |
1799 | .BR ptrace (2)). | |
1800 | If the check denies access, then the field value is displayed as 0. | |
1801 | The affected fields are indicated with the marking [PT]. | |
2dad4c59 | 1802 | .IP |
fea681da | 1803 | .RS |
62e4a418 MK |
1804 | .TP 10 |
1805 | (1) \fIpid\fP \ %d | |
1806 | .br | |
1807 | The process ID. | |
fea681da | 1808 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1809 | (2) \fIcomm\fP \ %s |
1810 | The filename of the executable, in parentheses. | |
c13182ef | 1811 | This is visible whether or not the executable is swapped out. |
fea681da | 1812 | .TP |
62e4a418 | 1813 | (3) \fIstate\fP \ %c |
31293f37 MK |
1814 | One of the following characters, indicating process state: |
1815 | .RS | |
1816 | .IP R 3 | |
1817 | Running | |
1818 | .IP S | |
1819 | Sleeping in an interruptible wait | |
1820 | .IP D | |
1821 | Waiting in uninterruptible | |
1822 | disk sleep | |
1823 | .IP Z | |
1824 | Zombie | |
1825 | .IP T | |
1826 | Stopped (on a signal) or (before Linux 2.6.33) trace stopped | |
1827 | .IP t | |
1828 | .\" commit 44d90df6b757c59651ddd55f1a84f28132b50d29 | |
1829 | Tracing stop (Linux 2.6.33 onward) | |
1830 | .IP W | |
1831 | Paging (only before Linux 2.6.0) | |
1832 | .IP X | |
ef4f4031 | 1833 | Dead (from Linux 2.6.0 onward) |
31293f37 MK |
1834 | .IP x |
1835 | .\" commit 44d90df6b757c59651ddd55f1a84f28132b50d29 | |
1836 | Dead (Linux 2.6.33 to | |
1837 | .\" commit 74e37200de8e9c4e09b70c21c3f13c2071e77457 | |
1838 | 3.13 only) | |
1839 | .IP K | |
1840 | .\" commit 44d90df6b757c59651ddd55f1a84f28132b50d29 | |
1841 | Wakekill (Linux 2.6.33 to | |
1842 | .\" commit 74e37200de8e9c4e09b70c21c3f13c2071e77457 | |
1843 | 3.13 only) | |
1844 | .IP W | |
1845 | .\" commit 44d90df6b757c59651ddd55f1a84f28132b50d29 | |
1846 | Waking (Linux 2.6.33 to | |
1847 | .\" commit 74e37200de8e9c4e09b70c21c3f13c2071e77457 | |
1848 | 3.13 only) | |
1849 | .IP P | |
1850 | .\" commit f2530dc71cf0822f90bb63ea4600caaef33a66bb | |
1851 | Parked (Linux 3.9 to | |
1852 | .\" commit 74e37200de8e9c4e09b70c21c3f13c2071e77457 | |
1853 | 3.13 only) | |
1854 | .RE | |
fea681da | 1855 | .TP |
62e4a418 | 1856 | (4) \fIppid\fP \ %d |
e0fdc57c | 1857 | The PID of the parent of this process. |
fea681da | 1858 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1859 | (5) \fIpgrp\fP \ %d |
1860 | The process group ID of the process. | |
fea681da | 1861 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1862 | (6) \fIsession\fP \ %d |
1863 | The session ID of the process. | |
fea681da | 1864 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1865 | (7) \fItty_nr\fP \ %d |
1866 | The controlling terminal of the process. | |
59a40ed7 MK |
1867 | (The minor device number is contained in the combination of bits |
1868 | 31 to 20 and 7 to 0; | |
b97deb97 | 1869 | the major device number is in bits 15 to 8.) |
fea681da | 1870 | .TP |
62e4a418 | 1871 | (8) \fItpgid\fP \ %d |
fea681da | 1872 | .\" This field and following, up to and including wchan added 0.99.1 |
62e4a418 | 1873 | The ID of the foreground process group of the controlling |
59a40ed7 | 1874 | terminal of the process. |
fea681da | 1875 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1876 | (9) \fIflags\fP \ %u |
1877 | The kernel flags word of the process. | |
c13182ef | 1878 | For bit meanings, |
66a9882e | 1879 | see the PF_* defines in the Linux kernel source file |
00702acc | 1880 | .IR include/linux/sched.h . |
fea681da | 1881 | Details depend on the kernel version. |
2dad4c59 | 1882 | .IP |
62e4a418 | 1883 | The format for this field was %lu before Linux 2.6. |
fea681da | 1884 | .TP |
ee566744 | 1885 | (10) \fIminflt\fP \ %lu |
62e4a418 | 1886 | The number of minor faults the process has made which have not |
fea681da MK |
1887 | required loading a memory page from disk. |
1888 | .TP | |
62e4a418 MK |
1889 | (11) \fIcminflt\fP \ %lu |
1890 | The number of minor faults that the process's | |
fea681da MK |
1891 | waited-for children have made. |
1892 | .TP | |
62e4a418 MK |
1893 | (12) \fImajflt\fP \ %lu |
1894 | The number of major faults the process has made which have | |
fea681da MK |
1895 | required loading a memory page from disk. |
1896 | .TP | |
62e4a418 MK |
1897 | (13) \fIcmajflt\fP \ %lu |
1898 | The number of major faults that the process's | |
fea681da MK |
1899 | waited-for children have made. |
1900 | .TP | |
62e4a418 MK |
1901 | (14) \fIutime\fP \ %lu |
1902 | Amount of time that this process has been scheduled in user mode, | |
7a017e24 | 1903 | measured in clock ticks (divide by |
67914165 | 1904 | .IR sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) ). |
a1c9dc59 MK |
1905 | This includes guest time, \fIguest_time\fP |
1906 | (time spent running a virtual CPU, see below), | |
1907 | so that applications that are not aware of the guest time field | |
1908 | do not lose that time from their calculations. | |
fea681da | 1909 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1910 | (15) \fIstime\fP \ %lu |
1911 | Amount of time that this process has been scheduled in kernel mode, | |
7a017e24 | 1912 | measured in clock ticks (divide by |
67914165 | 1913 | .IR sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) ). |
fea681da | 1914 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1915 | (16) \fIcutime\fP \ %ld |
1916 | Amount of time that this process's | |
7a017e24 MK |
1917 | waited-for children have been scheduled in user mode, |
1918 | measured in clock ticks (divide by | |
67914165 | 1919 | .IR sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) ). |
c13182ef | 1920 | (See also |
fea681da | 1921 | .BR times (2).) |
a1c9dc59 MK |
1922 | This includes guest time, \fIcguest_time\fP |
1923 | (time spent running a virtual CPU, see below). | |
fea681da | 1924 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1925 | (17) \fIcstime\fP \ %ld |
1926 | Amount of time that this process's | |
7a017e24 MK |
1927 | waited-for children have been scheduled in kernel mode, |
1928 | measured in clock ticks (divide by | |
67914165 | 1929 | .IR sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) ). |
fea681da | 1930 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1931 | (18) \fIpriority\fP \ %ld |
1932 | (Explanation for Linux 2.6) | |
59a40ed7 MK |
1933 | For processes running a real-time scheduling policy |
1934 | .RI ( policy | |
1935 | below; see | |
1936 | .BR sched_setscheduler (2)), | |
1937 | this is the negated scheduling priority, minus one; | |
1938 | that is, a number in the range \-2 to \-100, | |
1939 | corresponding to real-time priorities 1 to 99. | |
1940 | For processes running under a non-real-time scheduling policy, | |
1941 | this is the raw nice value | |
1942 | .RB ( setpriority (2)) | |
1943 | as represented in the kernel. | |
1944 | The kernel stores nice values as numbers | |
1945 | in the range 0 (high) to 39 (low), | |
1946 | corresponding to the user-visible nice range of \-20 to 19. | |
2dad4c59 | 1947 | .IP |
59a40ed7 MK |
1948 | Before Linux 2.6, this was a scaled value based on |
1949 | the scheduler weighting given to this process. | |
1950 | .\" And back in kernel 1.2 days things were different again. | |
fea681da | 1951 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1952 | (19) \fInice\fP \ %ld |
1953 | The nice value (see | |
59a40ed7 MK |
1954 | .BR setpriority (2)), |
1955 | a value in the range 19 (low priority) to \-20 (high priority). | |
1956 | .\" Back in kernel 1.2 days things were different. | |
fea681da MK |
1957 | .\" .TP |
1958 | .\" \fIcounter\fP %ld | |
1959 | .\" The current maximum size in jiffies of the process's next timeslice, | |
1960 | .\" or what is currently left of its current timeslice, if it is the | |
1961 | .\" currently running process. | |
1962 | .\" .TP | |
1963 | .\" \fItimeout\fP %u | |
1964 | .\" The time in jiffies of the process's next timeout. | |
0e94f77b | 1965 | .\" timeout was removed sometime around 2.1/2.2 |
aa610245 | 1966 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1967 | (20) \fInum_threads\fP \ %ld |
1968 | Number of threads in this process (since Linux 2.6). | |
bb83d1b9 | 1969 | Before kernel 2.6, this field was hard coded to 0 as a placeholder |
0e94f77b | 1970 | for an earlier removed field. |
fea681da | 1971 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1972 | (21) \fIitrealvalue\fP \ %ld |
1973 | The time in jiffies before the next | |
8bd58774 MK |
1974 | .B SIGALRM |
1975 | is sent to the process due to an interval timer. | |
0e94f77b MK |
1976 | Since kernel 2.6.17, this field is no longer maintained, |
1977 | and is hard coded as 0. | |
fea681da | 1978 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1979 | (22) \fIstarttime\fP \ %llu |
1980 | The time the process started after system boot. | |
055024ed MK |
1981 | In kernels before Linux 2.6, this value was expressed in jiffies. |
1982 | Since Linux 2.6, the value is expressed in clock ticks (divide by | |
1983 | .IR sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) ). | |
2dad4c59 | 1984 | .IP |
62e4a418 | 1985 | The format for this field was %lu before Linux 2.6. |
fea681da | 1986 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1987 | (23) \fIvsize\fP \ %lu |
1988 | Virtual memory size in bytes. | |
fea681da | 1989 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
1990 | (24) \fIrss\fP \ %ld |
1991 | Resident Set Size: number of pages the process has in real memory. | |
c13182ef | 1992 | This is just the pages which |
5fab2e7c | 1993 | count toward text, data, or stack space. |
c13182ef | 1994 | This does not include pages |
fea681da MK |
1995 | which have not been demand-loaded in, or which are swapped out. |
1996 | .TP | |
62e4a418 MK |
1997 | (25) \fIrsslim\fP \ %lu |
1998 | Current soft limit in bytes on the rss of the process; | |
59a40ed7 MK |
1999 | see the description of |
2000 | .B RLIMIT_RSS | |
2001 | in | |
2b5407af | 2002 | .BR getrlimit (2). |
fea681da | 2003 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2004 | (26) \fIstartcode\fP \ %lu \ [PT] |
62e4a418 | 2005 | The address above which program text can run. |
fea681da | 2006 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2007 | (27) \fIendcode\fP \ %lu \ [PT] |
62e4a418 | 2008 | The address below which program text can run. |
fea681da | 2009 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2010 | (28) \fIstartstack\fP \ %lu \ [PT] |
62e4a418 | 2011 | The address of the start (i.e., bottom) of the stack. |
fea681da | 2012 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2013 | (29) \fIkstkesp\fP \ %lu \ [PT] |
62e4a418 | 2014 | The current value of ESP (stack pointer), as found in the |
fea681da MK |
2015 | kernel stack page for the process. |
2016 | .TP | |
b02b4b74 | 2017 | (30) \fIkstkeip\fP \ %lu \ [PT] |
62e4a418 | 2018 | The current EIP (instruction pointer). |
fea681da | 2019 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
2020 | (31) \fIsignal\fP \ %lu |
2021 | The bitmap of pending signals, displayed as a decimal number. | |
59a40ed7 | 2022 | Obsolete, because it does not provide information on real-time signals; use |
69119dc7 | 2023 | .I /proc/[pid]/status |
59a40ed7 | 2024 | instead. |
fea681da | 2025 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
2026 | (32) \fIblocked\fP \ %lu |
2027 | The bitmap of blocked signals, displayed as a decimal number. | |
59a40ed7 | 2028 | Obsolete, because it does not provide information on real-time signals; use |
69119dc7 | 2029 | .I /proc/[pid]/status |
59a40ed7 | 2030 | instead. |
fea681da | 2031 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
2032 | (33) \fIsigignore\fP \ %lu |
2033 | The bitmap of ignored signals, displayed as a decimal number. | |
59a40ed7 | 2034 | Obsolete, because it does not provide information on real-time signals; use |
69119dc7 | 2035 | .I /proc/[pid]/status |
59a40ed7 | 2036 | instead. |
fea681da | 2037 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
2038 | (34) \fIsigcatch\fP \ %lu |
2039 | The bitmap of caught signals, displayed as a decimal number. | |
59a40ed7 | 2040 | Obsolete, because it does not provide information on real-time signals; use |
69119dc7 | 2041 | .I /proc/[pid]/status |
59a40ed7 | 2042 | instead. |
fea681da | 2043 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2044 | (35) \fIwchan\fP \ %lu \ [PT] |
62e4a418 | 2045 | This is the "channel" in which the process is waiting. |
2054f761 MK |
2046 | It is the address of a location in the kernel where the process is sleeping. |
2047 | The corresponding symbolic name can be found in | |
2048 | .IR /proc/[pid]/wchan . | |
fea681da | 2049 | .TP |
62e4a418 | 2050 | (36) \fInswap\fP \ %lu |
0633f951 | 2051 | .\" nswap was added in 2.0 |
4d9b6984 | 2052 | Number of pages swapped (not maintained). |
fea681da | 2053 | .TP |
62e4a418 | 2054 | (37) \fIcnswap\fP \ %lu |
0633f951 | 2055 | .\" cnswap was added in 2.0 |
4d9b6984 | 2056 | Cumulative \fInswap\fP for child processes (not maintained). |
fea681da | 2057 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
2058 | (38) \fIexit_signal\fP \ %d \ (since Linux 2.1.22) |
2059 | Signal to be sent to parent when we die. | |
fea681da | 2060 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
2061 | (39) \fIprocessor\fP \ %d \ (since Linux 2.2.8) |
2062 | CPU number last executed on. | |
568105c6 | 2063 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
2064 | (40) \fIrt_priority\fP \ %u \ (since Linux 2.5.19) |
2065 | Real-time scheduling priority, a number in the range 1 to 99 for | |
59a40ed7 MK |
2066 | processes scheduled under a real-time policy, |
2067 | or 0, for non-real-time processes (see | |
568105c6 MK |
2068 | .BR sched_setscheduler (2)). |
2069 | .TP | |
62e4a418 MK |
2070 | (41) \fIpolicy\fP \ %u \ (since Linux 2.5.19) |
2071 | Scheduling policy (see | |
568105c6 | 2072 | .BR sched_setscheduler (2)). |
cd60dedd | 2073 | Decode using the SCHED_* constants in |
59a40ed7 | 2074 | .IR linux/sched.h . |
2dad4c59 | 2075 | .IP |
62e4a418 | 2076 | The format for this field was %lu before Linux 2.6.22. |
167450d6 | 2077 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
2078 | (42) \fIdelayacct_blkio_ticks\fP \ %llu \ (since Linux 2.6.18) |
2079 | Aggregated block I/O delays, measured in clock ticks (centiseconds). | |
14c06953 | 2080 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
2081 | (43) \fIguest_time\fP \ %lu \ (since Linux 2.6.24) |
2082 | Guest time of the process (time spent running a virtual CPU | |
7a017e24 | 2083 | for a guest operating system), measured in clock ticks (divide by |
67914165 | 2084 | .IR sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) ). |
14c06953 | 2085 | .TP |
62e4a418 MK |
2086 | (44) \fIcguest_time\fP \ %ld \ (since Linux 2.6.24) |
2087 | Guest time of the process's children, measured in clock ticks (divide by | |
67914165 | 2088 | .IR sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) ). |
fea681da | 2089 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2090 | (45) \fIstart_data\fP \ %lu \ (since Linux 3.3) \ [PT] |
0be30a54 | 2091 | .\" commit b3f7f573a20081910e34e99cbc91831f4f02f1ff |
62e4a418 | 2092 | Address above which program initialized and |
426bc8d7 | 2093 | uninitialized (BSS) data are placed. |
12449ae3 | 2094 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2095 | (46) \fIend_data\fP \ %lu \ (since Linux 3.3) \ [PT] |
0be30a54 | 2096 | .\" commit b3f7f573a20081910e34e99cbc91831f4f02f1ff |
62e4a418 | 2097 | Address below which program initialized and |
426bc8d7 | 2098 | uninitialized (BSS) data are placed. |
12449ae3 | 2099 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2100 | (47) \fIstart_brk\fP \ %lu \ (since Linux 3.3) \ [PT] |
0be30a54 | 2101 | .\" commit b3f7f573a20081910e34e99cbc91831f4f02f1ff |
62e4a418 | 2102 | Address above which program heap can be expanded with |
426bc8d7 | 2103 | .BR brk (2). |
12449ae3 | 2104 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2105 | (48) \fIarg_start\fP \ %lu \ (since Linux 3.5) \ [PT] |
0be30a54 | 2106 | .\" commit 5b172087f99189416d5f47fd7ab5e6fb762a9ba3 |
62e4a418 | 2107 | Address above which program command-line arguments |
426bc8d7 MK |
2108 | .RI ( argv ) |
2109 | are placed. | |
12449ae3 | 2110 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2111 | (49) \fIarg_end\fP \ %lu \ (since Linux 3.5) \ [PT] |
0be30a54 | 2112 | .\" commit 5b172087f99189416d5f47fd7ab5e6fb762a9ba3 |
62e4a418 | 2113 | Address below program command-line arguments |
426bc8d7 MK |
2114 | .RI ( argv ) |
2115 | are placed. | |
12449ae3 | 2116 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2117 | (50) \fIenv_start\fP \ %lu \ (since Linux 3.5) \ [PT] |
0be30a54 | 2118 | .\" commit 5b172087f99189416d5f47fd7ab5e6fb762a9ba3 |
62e4a418 | 2119 | Address above which program environment is placed. |
12449ae3 | 2120 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2121 | (51) \fIenv_end\fP \ %lu \ (since Linux 3.5) \ [PT] |
0be30a54 | 2122 | .\" commit 5b172087f99189416d5f47fd7ab5e6fb762a9ba3 |
62e4a418 | 2123 | Address below which program environment is placed. |
12449ae3 | 2124 | .TP |
b02b4b74 | 2125 | (52) \fIexit_code\fP \ %d \ (since Linux 3.5) \ [PT] |
0be30a54 | 2126 | .\" commit 5b172087f99189416d5f47fd7ab5e6fb762a9ba3 |
62e4a418 | 2127 | The thread's exit status in the form reported by |
426bc8d7 | 2128 | .BR waitpid (2). |
12449ae3 | 2129 | .RE |
2130 | .TP | |
69119dc7 | 2131 | .I /proc/[pid]/statm |
59a40ed7 | 2132 | Provides information about memory usage, measured in pages. |
c13182ef | 2133 | The columns are: |
37d5e699 | 2134 | .IP |
a08ea57c | 2135 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 2136 | .EX |
cb42fb56 | 2137 | size (1) total program size |
69119dc7 | 2138 | (same as VmSize in \fI/proc/[pid]/status\fP) |
cb42fb56 | 2139 | resident (2) resident set size |
69119dc7 | 2140 | (same as VmRSS in \fI/proc/[pid]/status\fP) |
4e6fa352 MK |
2141 | shared (3) number of resident shared pages (i.e., backed by a file) |
2142 | (same as RssFile+RssShmem in \fI/proc/[pid]/status\fP) | |
cb42fb56 | 2143 | text (4) text (code) |
59a40ed7 | 2144 | .\" (not including libs; broken, includes data segment) |
d133b9b3 | 2145 | lib (5) library (unused since Linux 2.6; always 0) |
cb42fb56 | 2146 | data (6) data + stack |
59a40ed7 | 2147 | .\" (including libs; broken, includes library text) |
d133b9b3 | 2148 | dt (7) dirty pages (unused since Linux 2.6; always 0) |
37d5e699 | 2149 | .EE |
a08ea57c | 2150 | .in |
fea681da | 2151 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 2152 | .I /proc/[pid]/status |
fea681da | 2153 | Provides much of the information in |
69119dc7 | 2154 | .I /proc/[pid]/stat |
fea681da | 2155 | and |
69119dc7 | 2156 | .I /proc/[pid]/statm |
fea681da | 2157 | in a format that's easier for humans to parse. |
16b5f7ba | 2158 | Here's an example: |
37d5e699 | 2159 | .IP |
16b5f7ba | 2160 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 2161 | .EX |
b43a3b30 | 2162 | .RB "$" " cat /proc/$$/status" |
16b5f7ba | 2163 | Name: bash |
a79343e9 | 2164 | Umask: 0022 |
16b5f7ba | 2165 | State: S (sleeping) |
aac0b30f | 2166 | Tgid: 17248 |
2d2dfb69 | 2167 | Ngid: 0 |
aac0b30f MK |
2168 | Pid: 17248 |
2169 | PPid: 17200 | |
16b5f7ba MK |
2170 | TracerPid: 0 |
2171 | Uid: 1000 1000 1000 1000 | |
2172 | Gid: 100 100 100 100 | |
2173 | FDSize: 256 | |
2174 | Groups: 16 33 100 | |
aac0b30f MK |
2175 | NStgid: 17248 |
2176 | NSpid: 17248 | |
2177 | NSpgid: 17248 | |
2178 | NSsid: 17200 | |
06b7cee0 MK |
2179 | VmPeak: 131168 kB |
2180 | VmSize: 131168 kB | |
2181 | VmLck: 0 kB | |
2182 | VmPin: 0 kB | |
2183 | VmHWM: 13484 kB | |
2184 | VmRSS: 13484 kB | |
e546617e MK |
2185 | RssAnon: 10264 kB |
2186 | RssFile: 3220 kB | |
2187 | RssShmem: 0 kB | |
06b7cee0 MK |
2188 | VmData: 10332 kB |
2189 | VmStk: 136 kB | |
2190 | VmExe: 992 kB | |
2191 | VmLib: 2104 kB | |
2192 | VmPTE: 76 kB | |
2193 | VmPMD: 12 kB | |
2194 | VmSwap: 0 kB | |
4084d612 | 2195 | HugetlbPages: 0 kB # 4.4 |
16b5f7ba MK |
2196 | Threads: 1 |
2197 | SigQ: 0/3067 | |
2198 | SigPnd: 0000000000000000 | |
2199 | ShdPnd: 0000000000000000 | |
2200 | SigBlk: 0000000000010000 | |
2201 | SigIgn: 0000000000384004 | |
2202 | SigCgt: 000000004b813efb | |
2203 | CapInh: 0000000000000000 | |
2204 | CapPrm: 0000000000000000 | |
2205 | CapEff: 0000000000000000 | |
2206 | CapBnd: ffffffffffffffff | |
6112ea97 | 2207 | CapAmb: 0000000000000000 |
6c0ed873 | 2208 | NoNewPrivs: 0 |
039b6546 | 2209 | Seccomp: 0 |
16b5f7ba MK |
2210 | Cpus_allowed: 00000001 |
2211 | Cpus_allowed_list: 0 | |
2212 | Mems_allowed: 1 | |
2213 | Mems_allowed_list: 0 | |
2214 | voluntary_ctxt_switches: 150 | |
2215 | nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 545 | |
37d5e699 | 2216 | .EE |
16b5f7ba MK |
2217 | .in |
2218 | .IP | |
2219 | The fields are as follows: | |
2220 | .RS | |
2221 | .IP * 2 | |
2222 | .IR Name : | |
2223 | Command run by this process. | |
2224 | .IP * | |
a79343e9 | 2225 | .IR Umask : |
53473996 MK |
2226 | Process umask, expressed in octal with a leading zero; see |
2227 | .BR umask (2). | |
a79343e9 MK |
2228 | (Since Linux 4.7.) |
2229 | .IP * | |
16b5f7ba | 2230 | .IR State : |
4175f999 MK |
2231 | Current state of the process. |
2232 | One of | |
16b5f7ba MK |
2233 | "R (running)", |
2234 | "S (sleeping)", | |
2235 | "D (disk sleep)", | |
2236 | "T (stopped)", | |
2237 | "T (tracing stop)", | |
2238 | "Z (zombie)", | |
2239 | or | |
2240 | "X (dead)". | |
2241 | .IP * | |
2242 | .IR Tgid : | |
2243 | Thread group ID (i.e., Process ID). | |
2244 | .IP * | |
2d2dfb69 MK |
2245 | .IR Ngid : |
2246 | NUMA group ID (0 if none; since Linux 3.13). | |
2247 | .IP * | |
16b5f7ba MK |
2248 | .IR Pid : |
2249 | Thread ID (see | |
2250 | .BR gettid (2)). | |
2251 | .IP * | |
a1bc91d5 MK |
2252 | .IR PPid : |
2253 | PID of parent process. | |
2254 | .IP * | |
16b5f7ba MK |
2255 | .IR TracerPid : |
2256 | PID of process tracing this process (0 if not being traced). | |
2257 | .IP * | |
2258 | .IR Uid ", " Gid : | |
9ee4a2b6 | 2259 | Real, effective, saved set, and filesystem UIDs (GIDs). |
16b5f7ba MK |
2260 | .IP * |
2261 | .IR FDSize : | |
2262 | Number of file descriptor slots currently allocated. | |
2263 | .IP * | |
2264 | .IR Groups : | |
2265 | Supplementary group list. | |
2266 | .IP * | |
ecc9535d | 2267 | .I NStgid : |
aac0b30f MK |
2268 | Thread group ID (i.e., PID) in each of the PID namespaces of which |
2269 | .I [pid] | |
2270 | is a member. | |
2271 | The leftmost entry shows the value with respect to the PID namespace | |
2272 | of the reading process, | |
2273 | followed by the value in successively nested inner namespaces. | |
2274 | .\" commit e4bc33245124db69b74a6d853ac76c2976f472d5 | |
2275 | (Since Linux 4.1.) | |
2276 | .IP * | |
ecc9535d | 2277 | .IR NSpid: |
aac0b30f MK |
2278 | Thread ID in each of the PID namespaces of which |
2279 | .I [pid] | |
2280 | is a member. | |
2281 | The fields are ordered as for | |
2282 | .IR NStgid . | |
2283 | (Since Linux 4.1.) | |
2284 | .IP * | |
ecc9535d | 2285 | .IR NSpgid : |
aac0b30f MK |
2286 | Process group ID in each of the PID namespaces of which |
2287 | .I [pid] | |
2288 | is a member. | |
2289 | The fields are ordered as for | |
2290 | .IR NStgid . | |
2291 | (Since Linux 4.1.) | |
2292 | .IP * | |
ecc9535d | 2293 | .IR NSsid : |
aac0b30f MK |
2294 | descendant namespace session ID hierarchy |
2295 | Session ID in each of the PID namespaces of which | |
2296 | .I [pid] | |
2297 | is a member. | |
2298 | The fields are ordered as for | |
2299 | .IR NStgid . | |
2300 | (Since Linux 4.1.) | |
2301 | .IP * | |
16b5f7ba MK |
2302 | .IR VmPeak : |
2303 | Peak virtual memory size. | |
2304 | .IP * | |
2305 | .IR VmSize : | |
2306 | Virtual memory size. | |
2307 | .IP * | |
2308 | .IR VmLck : | |
fde39195 MK |
2309 | Locked memory size (see |
2310 | .BR mlock (3)). | |
16b5f7ba | 2311 | .IP * |
15789039 TY |
2312 | .IR VmPin : |
2313 | Pinned memory size | |
2314 | .\" commit bc3e53f682d93df677dbd5006a404722b3adfe18 | |
2315 | (since Linux 3.2). | |
2316 | These are pages that can't be moved because something needs to | |
2317 | directly access physical memory. | |
2318 | .IP * | |
16b5f7ba MK |
2319 | .IR VmHWM : |
2320 | Peak resident set size ("high water mark"). | |
2321 | .IP * | |
2322 | .IR VmRSS : | |
2323 | Resident set size. | |
e546617e MK |
2324 | Note that the value here is the sum of |
2325 | .IR RssAnon , | |
2326 | .IR RssFile , | |
2327 | and | |
2328 | .IR RssShmem . | |
2329 | .IP * | |
2330 | .IR RssAnon : | |
2331 | Size of resident anonymous memory. | |
2332 | .\" commit bf9683d6990589390b5178dafe8fd06808869293 | |
2333 | (since Linux 4.5). | |
2334 | .IP * | |
2335 | .IR RssFile : | |
2336 | Size of resident file mappings. | |
2337 | .\" commit bf9683d6990589390b5178dafe8fd06808869293 | |
2338 | (since Linux 4.5). | |
2339 | .IP * | |
2340 | .IR RssShmem : | |
78230722 | 2341 | Size of resident shared memory (includes System V shared memory, |
4e07c70f MK |
2342 | mappings from |
2343 | .BR tmpfs (5), | |
2344 | and shared anonymous mappings). | |
e546617e MK |
2345 | .\" commit bf9683d6990589390b5178dafe8fd06808869293 |
2346 | (since Linux 4.5). | |
16b5f7ba MK |
2347 | .IP * |
2348 | .IR VmData ", " VmStk ", " VmExe : | |
2349 | Size of data, stack, and text segments. | |
2350 | .IP * | |
2351 | .IR VmLib : | |
2352 | Shared library code size. | |
2353 | .IP * | |
2354 | .IR VmPTE : | |
2355 | Page table entries size (since Linux 2.6.10). | |
2356 | .IP * | |
e28af9cd MK |
2357 | .IR VmPMD : |
2358 | .\" commit dc6c9a35b66b520cf67e05d8ca60ebecad3b0479 | |
73b9cbe1 | 2359 | Size of second-level page tables (since Linux 4.0). |
e28af9cd | 2360 | .IP * |
ac4b0eb3 | 2361 | .IR VmSwap : |
1ddc1665 | 2362 | .\" commit b084d4353ff99d824d3bc5a5c2c22c70b1fba722 |
fce21149 MK |
2363 | Swapped-out virtual memory size by anonymous private pages; |
2364 | shmem swap usage is not included (since Linux 2.6.34). | |
49f6dda7 | 2365 | .IP * |
4084d612 MK |
2366 | .IR HugetlbPages : |
2367 | Size of hugetlb memory portions. | |
2368 | .\" commit 5d317b2b6536592a9b51fe65faed43d65ca9158e | |
2369 | (since Linux 4.4). | |
2370 | .IP * | |
16b5f7ba MK |
2371 | .IR Threads : |
2372 | Number of threads in process containing this thread. | |
2373 | .IP * | |
6ee625eb MK |
2374 | .IR SigQ : |
2375 | This field contains two slash-separated numbers that relate to | |
2376 | queued signals for the real user ID of this process. | |
2377 | The first of these is the number of currently queued | |
2378 | signals for this real user ID, and the second is the | |
2379 | resource limit on the number of queued signals for this process | |
2380 | (see the description of | |
2381 | .BR RLIMIT_SIGPENDING | |
2382 | in | |
2383 | .BR getrlimit (2)). | |
2384 | .IP * | |
16b5f7ba MK |
2385 | .IR SigPnd ", " ShdPnd : |
2386 | Number of signals pending for thread and for process as a whole (see | |
2387 | .BR pthreads (7) | |
2388 | and | |
2389 | .BR signal (7)). | |
2390 | .IP * | |
2391 | .IR SigBlk ", " SigIgn ", " SigCgt : | |
2392 | Masks indicating signals being blocked, ignored, and caught (see | |
2393 | .BR signal (7)). | |
2394 | .IP * | |
2395 | .IR CapInh ", " CapPrm ", " CapEff : | |
2396 | Masks of capabilities enabled in inheritable, permitted, and effective sets | |
2397 | (see | |
2398 | .BR capabilities (7)). | |
2399 | .IP * | |
2400 | .IR CapBnd : | |
2401 | Capability Bounding set | |
7e07d950 | 2402 | (since Linux 2.6.26, see |
16b5f7ba MK |
2403 | .BR capabilities (7)). |
2404 | .IP * | |
6112ea97 MK |
2405 | .IR CapAmb : |
2406 | Ambient capability set | |
2407 | (since Linux 4.3, see | |
2408 | .BR capabilities (7)). | |
2409 | .IP * | |
6c0ed873 MK |
2410 | .IR NoNewPrivs : |
2411 | .\" commit af884cd4a5ae62fcf5e321fecf0ec1014730353d | |
2412 | Value of the | |
2413 | .I no_new_privs | |
2414 | bit | |
2415 | (since Linux 4.10, see | |
2416 | .BR prctl (2)). | |
2417 | .IP * | |
039b6546 MK |
2418 | .IR Seccomp : |
2419 | .\" commit 2f4b3bf6b2318cfaa177ec5a802f4d8d6afbd816 | |
2420 | Seccomp mode of the process | |
2421 | (since Linux 3.8, see | |
2422 | .BR seccomp (2)). | |
2423 | 0 means | |
2424 | .BR SECCOMP_MODE_DISABLED ; | |
2425 | 1 means | |
2426 | .BR SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT ; | |
2427 | 2 means | |
2428 | .BR SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER . | |
2429 | This field is provided only if the kernel was built with the | |
2430 | .BR CONFIG_SECCOMP | |
2431 | kernel configuration option enabled. | |
2432 | .IP * | |
16b5f7ba MK |
2433 | .IR Cpus_allowed : |
2434 | Mask of CPUs on which this process may run | |
2435 | (since Linux 2.6.24, see | |
2436 | .BR cpuset (7)). | |
2437 | .IP * | |
2438 | .IR Cpus_allowed_list : | |
2439 | Same as previous, but in "list format" | |
2440 | (since Linux 2.6.26, see | |
2441 | .BR cpuset (7)). | |
2442 | .IP * | |
2443 | .IR Mems_allowed : | |
2444 | Mask of memory nodes allowed to this process | |
2445 | (since Linux 2.6.24, see | |
2446 | .BR cpuset (7)). | |
2447 | .IP * | |
2448 | .IR Mems_allowed_list : | |
2449 | Same as previous, but in "list format" | |
2450 | (since Linux 2.6.26, see | |
2451 | .BR cpuset (7)). | |
2452 | .IP * | |
7c82878a | 2453 | .IR voluntary_ctxt_switches ", " nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches : |
16b5f7ba MK |
2454 | Number of voluntary and involuntary context switches (since Linux 2.6.23). |
2455 | .RE | |
afb7b014 MK |
2456 | .TP |
2457 | .IR /proc/[pid]/syscall " (since Linux 2.6.27)" | |
2458 | .\" commit ebcb67341fee34061430f3367f2e507e52ee051b | |
2459 | This file exposes the system call number and argument registers for the | |
2460 | system call currently being executed by the process, | |
2461 | followed by the values of the stack pointer and program counter registers. | |
2462 | The values of all six argument registers are exposed, | |
2463 | although most system calls use fewer registers. | |
2dad4c59 | 2464 | .IP |
afb7b014 | 2465 | If the process is blocked, but not in a system call, |
1fb61947 | 2466 | then the file displays \-1 in place of the system call number, |
afb7b014 | 2467 | followed by just the values of the stack pointer and program counter. |
64fcb6e1 | 2468 | If process is not blocked, then the file contains just the string "running". |
2dad4c59 | 2469 | .IP |
afb7b014 MK |
2470 | This file is present only if the kernel was configured with |
2471 | .BR CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK . | |
2dad4c59 | 2472 | .IP |
4834ae91 MK |
2473 | Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode |
2474 | .B PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS | |
2475 | check; see | |
2476 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
fea681da | 2477 | .TP |
69119dc7 | 2478 | .IR /proc/[pid]/task " (since Linux 2.6.0-test6)" |
afcaf646 MK |
2479 | This is a directory that contains one subdirectory |
2480 | for each thread in the process. | |
69119dc7 MK |
2481 | The name of each subdirectory is the numerical thread ID |
2482 | .RI ( [tid] ) | |
2483 | of the thread (see | |
afcaf646 MK |
2484 | .BR gettid (2)). |
2485 | Within each of these subdirectories, there is a set of | |
2486 | files with the same names and contents as under the | |
69119dc7 | 2487 | .I /proc/[pid] |
afcaf646 MK |
2488 | directories. |
2489 | For attributes that are shared by all threads, the contents for | |
2490 | each of the files under the | |
69119dc7 | 2491 | .I task/[tid] |
afcaf646 | 2492 | subdirectories will be the same as in the corresponding |
c13182ef | 2493 | file in the parent |
69119dc7 | 2494 | .I /proc/[pid] |
afcaf646 | 2495 | directory |
c13182ef | 2496 | (e.g., in a multithreaded process, all of the |
69119dc7 | 2497 | .I task/[tid]/cwd |
c13182ef | 2498 | files will have the same value as the |
69119dc7 | 2499 | .I /proc/[pid]/cwd |
c13182ef | 2500 | file in the parent directory, since all of the threads in a process |
afcaf646 MK |
2501 | share a working directory). |
2502 | For attributes that are distinct for each thread, | |
c13182ef | 2503 | the corresponding files under |
69119dc7 | 2504 | .I task/[tid] |
afcaf646 | 2505 | may have different values (e.g., various fields in each of the |
69119dc7 | 2506 | .I task/[tid]/status |
4a40c703 JH |
2507 | files may be different for each thread), |
2508 | .\" in particular: "children" :/ | |
2509 | or they might not exist in | |
2510 | .I /proc/[pid] | |
2511 | at all. | |
afcaf646 MK |
2512 | .\" The following was still true as at kernel 2.6.13 |
2513 | In a multithreaded process, the contents of the | |
69119dc7 | 2514 | .I /proc/[pid]/task |
c13182ef | 2515 | directory are not available if the main thread has already terminated |
afcaf646 MK |
2516 | (typically by calling |
2517 | .BR pthread_exit (3)). | |
2dad4c59 | 2518 | .IP |
4a40c703 JH |
2519 | .TP |
2520 | .IR /proc/[pid]/task/[tid]/children " (since Linux 3.5)" | |
2521 | .\" commit 818411616baf46ceba0cff6f05af3a9b294734f7 | |
2522 | A space-separated list of child tasks of this task. | |
2523 | Each child task is represented by its TID. | |
2dad4c59 | 2524 | .IP |
4a40c703 | 2525 | .\" see comments in get_children_pid() in fs/proc/array.c |
45dd5092 MK |
2526 | This option is intended for use by the checkpoint-restore (CRIU) system, |
2527 | and reliably provides a list of children only if all of the child processes | |
2528 | are stopped or frozen. | |
2529 | It does not work properly if children of the target task exit while | |
4a40c703 | 2530 | the file is being read! |
45dd5092 | 2531 | Exiting children may cause non-exiting children to be omitted from the list. |
4a40c703 | 2532 | This makes this interface even more unreliable than classic PID-based |
45dd5092 MK |
2533 | approaches if the inspected task and its children aren't frozen, |
2534 | and most code should probably not use this interface. | |
2dad4c59 | 2535 | .IP |
7ded2db4 MK |
2536 | Until Linux 4.2, the presence of this file was governed by the |
2537 | .B CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE | |
2538 | kernel configuration option. | |
2539 | Since Linux 4.2, | |
2540 | .\" commit 2e13ba54a2682eea24918b87ad3edf70c2cf085b | |
ae34c521 | 2541 | it is governed by the |
7ded2db4 MK |
2542 | .B CONFIG_PROC_CHILDREN |
2543 | option. | |
afcaf646 | 2544 | .TP |
1509ca0e MK |
2545 | .IR /proc/[pid]/timers " (since Linux 3.10)" |
2546 | .\" commit 5ed67f05f66c41e39880a6d61358438a25f9fee5 | |
2547 | .\" commit 48f6a7a511ef8823fdff39afee0320092d43a8a0 | |
2548 | A list of the POSIX timers for this process. | |
93691c1e | 2549 | Each timer is listed with a line that starts with the string "ID:". |
1509ca0e | 2550 | For example: |
2dad4c59 | 2551 | .IP |
1509ca0e | 2552 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 2553 | .EX |
1509ca0e MK |
2554 | ID: 1 |
2555 | signal: 60/00007fff86e452a8 | |
2556 | notify: signal/pid.2634 | |
2557 | ClockID: 0 | |
2558 | ID: 0 | |
2559 | signal: 60/00007fff86e452a8 | |
2560 | notify: signal/pid.2634 | |
2561 | ClockID: 1 | |
37d5e699 | 2562 | .EE |
1509ca0e | 2563 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 2564 | .IP |
1509ca0e MK |
2565 | The lines shown for each timer have the following meanings: |
2566 | .RS | |
2567 | .TP | |
2568 | .I ID | |
2569 | The ID for this timer. | |
2570 | This is not the same as the timer ID returned by | |
2571 | .BR timer_create (2); | |
2572 | rather, it is the same kernel-internal ID that is available via the | |
2573 | .I si_timerid | |
2574 | field of the | |
2575 | .IR siginfo_t | |
2576 | structure (see | |
2577 | .BR sigaction (2)). | |
2578 | .TP | |
2579 | .I signal | |
2580 | This is the signal number that this timer uses to deliver notifications | |
2581 | followed by a slash, and then the | |
7f1ea8fb | 2582 | .I sigev_value |
1509ca0e MK |
2583 | value supplied to the signal handler. |
2584 | Valid only for timers that notify via a signal. | |
2585 | .TP | |
2586 | .I notify | |
2587 | The part before the slash specifies the mechanism | |
2588 | that this timer uses to deliver notifications, | |
2589 | and is one of "thread", "signal", or "none". | |
2590 | Immediately following the slash is either the string "tid" for timers | |
2591 | with | |
2592 | .B SIGEV_THREAD_ID | |
2593 | notification, or "pid" for timers that notify by other mechanisms. | |
dbe6f88b MK |
2594 | Following the "." is the PID of the process |
2595 | (or the kernel thread ID of the thread) that will be delivered | |
1509ca0e MK |
2596 | a signal if the timer delivers notifications via a signal. |
2597 | .TP | |
2598 | .I ClockID | |
2599 | This field identifies the clock that the timer uses for measuring time. | |
2600 | For most clocks, this is a number that matches one of the user-space | |
2601 | .BR CLOCK_* | |
9d54c087 | 2602 | constants exposed via |
1509ca0e MK |
2603 | .IR <time.h> . |
2604 | .B CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID | |
9bc87ed0 | 2605 | timers display with a value of \-6 |
1509ca0e MK |
2606 | in this field. |
2607 | .B CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID | |
9bc87ed0 | 2608 | timers display with a value of \-2 |
1509ca0e MK |
2609 | in this field. |
2610 | .RE | |
5734da6d MK |
2611 | .IP |
2612 | This file is available only when the kernel was configured with | |
2613 | .BR CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE . | |
1509ca0e | 2614 | .TP |
11f60142 MK |
2615 | .IR /proc/[pid]/timerslack_ns " (since Linux 4.6)" |
2616 | .\" commit da8b44d5a9f8bf26da637b7336508ca534d6b319 | |
2617 | .\" commit 5de23d435e88996b1efe0e2cebe242074ce67c9e | |
2618 | This file exposes the process's "current" timer slack value, | |
2619 | expressed in nanoseconds. | |
2620 | The file is writable, | |
2621 | allowing the process's timer slack value to be changed. | |
2622 | Writing 0 to this file resets the "current" timer slack to the | |
2623 | "default" timer slack value. | |
2624 | For further details, see the discussion of | |
2625 | .BR PR_SET_TIMERSLACK | |
2626 | in | |
2627 | .BR prctl (2). | |
2dad4c59 | 2628 | .IP |
5daae264 MK |
2629 | Initially, |
2630 | permission to access this file was governed by a ptrace access mode | |
a62e0e01 | 2631 | .B PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS |
5daae264 MK |
2632 | check (see |
2633 | .BR ptrace (2)). | |
2634 | However, this was subsequently deemed too strict a requirement | |
2635 | (and had the side effect that requiring a process to have the | |
2636 | .B CAP_SYS_PTRACE | |
2637 | capability would also allow it to view and change any process's memory). | |
2638 | Therefore, since Linux 4.9, | |
2639 | .\" commit 7abbaf94049914f074306d960b0f968ffe52e59f | |
2640 | only the (weaker) | |
2641 | .B CAP_SYS_NICE | |
2642 | capability is required to access this file. | |
11f60142 | 2643 | .TP |
b1aad373 MK |
2644 | .IR /proc/[pid]/uid_map ", " /proc/[pid]/gid_map " (since Linux 3.5)" |
2645 | See | |
2646 | .BR user_namespaces (7). | |
2647 | .TP | |
2648 | .IR /proc/[pid]/wchan " (since Linux 2.6.0)" | |
2649 | The symbolic name corresponding to the location | |
2650 | in the kernel where the process is sleeping. | |
2dad4c59 | 2651 | .IP |
82664739 MK |
2652 | Permission to access this file is governed by a ptrace access mode |
2653 | .B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | |
2654 | check; see | |
2655 | .BR ptrace (2). | |
b1aad373 MK |
2656 | .TP |
2657 | .I /proc/apm | |
2658 | Advanced power management version and battery information when | |
2659 | .B CONFIG_APM | |
2660 | is defined at kernel compilation time. | |
2661 | .TP | |
2662 | .I /proc/buddyinfo | |
2663 | This file contains information which is used for diagnosing memory | |
2664 | fragmentation issues. | |
2665 | Each line starts with the identification of the node and the name | |
2666 | of the zone which together identify a memory region | |
2667 | This is then | |
2668 | followed by the count of available chunks of a certain order in | |
2669 | which these zones are split. | |
2670 | The size in bytes of a certain order is given by the formula: | |
2dad4c59 | 2671 | .IP |
b1aad373 | 2672 | (2^order)\ *\ PAGE_SIZE |
2dad4c59 | 2673 | .IP |
b1aad373 MK |
2674 | The binary buddy allocator algorithm inside the kernel will split |
2675 | one chunk into two chunks of a smaller order (thus with half the | |
2676 | size) or combine two contiguous chunks into one larger chunk of | |
2677 | a higher order (thus with double the size) to satisfy allocation | |
2678 | requests and to counter memory fragmentation. | |
2679 | The order matches the column number, when starting to count at zero. | |
2dad4c59 | 2680 | .IP |
b1aad373 | 2681 | For example on a x86_64 system: |
2dad4c59 | 2682 | .IP |
b1aad373 | 2683 | .in -12n |
37d5e699 | 2684 | .EX |
b1aad373 MK |
2685 | Node 0, zone DMA 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 1 3 |
2686 | Node 0, zone DMA32 65 47 4 81 52 28 13 10 5 1 404 | |
2687 | Node 0, zone Normal 216 55 189 101 84 38 37 27 5 3 587 | |
37d5e699 | 2688 | .EE |
b1aad373 | 2689 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 2690 | .IP |
b1aad373 MK |
2691 | In this example, there is one node containing three zones and there |
2692 | are 11 different chunk sizes. | |
2693 | If the page size is 4 kilobytes, then the first zone called | |
2694 | .I DMA | |
2695 | (on x86 the first 16 megabyte of memory) has 1 chunk of 4 kilobytes | |
2696 | (order 0) available and has 3 chunks of 4 megabytes (order 10) available. | |
2dad4c59 | 2697 | .IP |
b1aad373 MK |
2698 | If the memory is heavily fragmented, the counters for higher |
2699 | order chunks will be zero and allocation of large contiguous areas | |
2700 | will fail. | |
2dad4c59 | 2701 | .IP |
b1aad373 MK |
2702 | Further information about the zones can be found in |
2703 | .IR /proc/zoneinfo . | |
2704 | .TP | |
2705 | .I /proc/bus | |
2706 | Contains subdirectories for installed busses. | |
2707 | .TP | |
2708 | .I /proc/bus/pccard | |
2709 | Subdirectory for PCMCIA devices when | |
2710 | .B CONFIG_PCMCIA | |
2711 | is set at kernel compilation time. | |
2712 | .TP | |
fea681da MK |
2713 | .I /proc/bus/pccard/drivers |
2714 | .TP | |
2715 | .I /proc/bus/pci | |
c13182ef | 2716 | Contains various bus subdirectories and pseudo-files containing |
59a40ed7 | 2717 | information about PCI busses, installed devices, and device |
c13182ef MK |
2718 | drivers. |
2719 | Some of these files are not ASCII. | |
fea681da MK |
2720 | .TP |
2721 | .I /proc/bus/pci/devices | |
59a40ed7 | 2722 | Information about PCI devices. |
c13182ef | 2723 | They may be accessed through |
fea681da MK |
2724 | .BR lspci (8) |
2725 | and | |
2726 | .BR setpci (8). | |
2727 | .TP | |
12b23dfe MK |
2728 | .IR /proc/cgroups " (since Linux 2.6.24)" |
2729 | See | |
2730 | .BR cgroups (7). | |
2731 | .TP | |
fea681da | 2732 | .I /proc/cmdline |
c13182ef MK |
2733 | Arguments passed to the Linux kernel at boot time. |
2734 | Often done via a boot manager such as | |
59a40ed7 MK |
2735 | .BR lilo (8) |
2736 | or | |
2737 | .BR grub (8). | |
f6e524c4 MK |
2738 | .TP |
2739 | .IR /proc/config.gz " (since Linux 2.6)" | |
2740 | This file exposes the configuration options that were used | |
c3d9780d | 2741 | to build the currently running kernel, |
f6e524c4 MK |
2742 | in the same format as they would be shown in the |
2743 | .I .config | |
2744 | file that resulted when configuring the kernel (using | |
2745 | .IR "make xconfig" , | |
2746 | .IR "make config" , | |
2747 | or similar). | |
2748 | The file contents are compressed; view or search them using | |
f78ed33a MK |
2749 | .BR zcat (1) |
2750 | and | |
2751 | .BR zgrep (1). | |
f6e524c4 | 2752 | As long as no changes have been made to the following file, |
250e01ec MK |
2753 | the contents of |
2754 | .I /proc/config.gz | |
37d5e699 MK |
2755 | are the same as those provided by: |
2756 | .IP | |
f6e524c4 | 2757 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 2758 | .EX |
c3074d70 | 2759 | cat /lib/modules/$(uname \-r)/build/.config |
37d5e699 | 2760 | .EE |
f6e524c4 | 2761 | .in |
250e01ec MK |
2762 | .IP |
2763 | .I /proc/config.gz | |
90878f7c | 2764 | is provided only if the kernel is configured with |
250e01ec | 2765 | .BR CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC . |
fea681da | 2766 | .TP |
577c0e20 MK |
2767 | .I /proc/crypto |
2768 | A list of the ciphers provided by the kernel crypto API. | |
2769 | For details, see the kernel | |
2770 | .I "Linux Kernel Crypto API" | |
2771 | documentation available under the kernel source directory | |
e94de168 ES |
2772 | .I Documentation/crypto/ |
2773 | .\" commit 3b72c814a8e8cd638e1ba0da4dfce501e9dff5af | |
2774 | (or | |
2775 | .I Documentation/DocBook | |
2776 | before 4.10; | |
2777 | the documentation can be built using a command such as | |
577c0e20 | 2778 | .IR "make htmldocs" |
e94de168 | 2779 | in the root directory of the kernel source tree). |
577c0e20 | 2780 | .TP |
fea681da MK |
2781 | .I /proc/cpuinfo |
2782 | This is a collection of CPU and system architecture dependent items, | |
2783 | for each supported architecture a different list. | |
2784 | Two common entries are \fIprocessor\fP which gives CPU number and | |
c13182ef MK |
2785 | \fIbogomips\fP; a system constant that is calculated |
2786 | during kernel initialization. | |
2787 | SMP machines have information for | |
fea681da | 2788 | each CPU. |
a091f002 MK |
2789 | The |
2790 | .BR lscpu (1) | |
2791 | command gathers its information from this file. | |
fea681da MK |
2792 | .TP |
2793 | .I /proc/devices | |
c13182ef MK |
2794 | Text listing of major numbers and device groups. |
2795 | This can be used by MAKEDEV scripts for consistency with the kernel. | |
fea681da MK |
2796 | .TP |
2797 | .IR /proc/diskstats " (since Linux 2.5.69)" | |
2798 | This file contains disk I/O statistics for each disk device. | |
66a9882e | 2799 | See the Linux kernel source file |
fea681da MK |
2800 | .I Documentation/iostats.txt |
2801 | for further information. | |
2802 | .TP | |
2803 | .I /proc/dma | |
c13182ef | 2804 | This is a list of the registered \fIISA\fP DMA (direct memory access) |
fea681da MK |
2805 | channels in use. |
2806 | .TP | |
2807 | .I /proc/driver | |
2808 | Empty subdirectory. | |
2809 | .TP | |
2810 | .I /proc/execdomains | |
2811 | List of the execution domains (ABI personalities). | |
2812 | .TP | |
2813 | .I /proc/fb | |
097585ed MK |
2814 | Frame buffer information when |
2815 | .B CONFIG_FB | |
2816 | is defined during kernel compilation. | |
fea681da MK |
2817 | .TP |
2818 | .I /proc/filesystems | |
9ee4a2b6 MK |
2819 | A text listing of the filesystems which are supported by the kernel, |
2820 | namely filesystems which were compiled into the kernel or whose kernel | |
6387216b MK |
2821 | modules are currently loaded. |
2822 | (See also | |
fb477da2 | 2823 | .BR filesystems (5).) |
9ee4a2b6 | 2824 | If a filesystem is marked with "nodev", |
809d0164 | 2825 | this means that it does not require a block device to be mounted |
9ee4a2b6 | 2826 | (e.g., virtual filesystem, network filesystem). |
2dad4c59 | 2827 | .IP |
809d0164 MK |
2828 | Incidentally, this file may be used by |
2829 | .BR mount (8) | |
9ee4a2b6 MK |
2830 | when no filesystem is specified and it didn't manage to determine the |
2831 | filesystem type. | |
2832 | Then filesystems contained in this file are tried | |
809d0164 | 2833 | (excepted those that are marked with "nodev"). |
fea681da MK |
2834 | .TP |
2835 | .I /proc/fs | |
df352acc | 2836 | .\" FIXME Much more needs to be said about /proc/fs |
91085d85 | 2837 | .\" |
df352acc MK |
2838 | Contains subdirectories that in turn contain files |
2839 | with information about (certain) mounted filesystems. | |
fea681da MK |
2840 | .TP |
2841 | .I /proc/ide | |
2842 | This directory | |
59a40ed7 MK |
2843 | exists on systems with the IDE bus. |
2844 | There are directories for each IDE channel and attached device. | |
c13182ef | 2845 | Files include: |
2dad4c59 | 2846 | .IP |
a08ea57c | 2847 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 2848 | .EX |
fea681da MK |
2849 | cache buffer size in KB |
2850 | capacity number of sectors | |
2851 | driver driver version | |
2852 | geometry physical and logical geometry | |
9fdfa163 | 2853 | identify in hexadecimal |
fea681da MK |
2854 | media media type |
2855 | model manufacturer's model number | |
2856 | settings drive settings | |
9fdfa163 MK |
2857 | smart_thresholds in hexadecimal |
2858 | smart_values in hexadecimal | |
37d5e699 | 2859 | .EE |
a08ea57c | 2860 | .in |
2dad4c59 | 2861 | .IP |
c13182ef | 2862 | The |
fea681da MK |
2863 | .BR hdparm (8) |
2864 | utility provides access to this information in a friendly format. | |
2865 | .TP | |
2866 | .I /proc/interrupts | |
23ec6ff0 MK |
2867 | This is used to record the number of interrupts per CPU per IO device. |
2868 | Since Linux 2.6.24, | |
2869 | for the i386 and x86_64 architectures, at least, this also includes | |
2870 | interrupts internal to the system (that is, not associated with a device | |
2871 | as such), such as NMI (nonmaskable interrupt), LOC (local timer interrupt), | |
2872 | and for SMP systems, TLB (TLB flush interrupt), RES (rescheduling | |
2873 | interrupt), CAL (remote function call interrupt), and possibly others. | |
2874 | Very easy to read formatting, done in ASCII. | |
fea681da MK |
2875 | .TP |
2876 | .I /proc/iomem | |
2877 | I/O memory map in Linux 2.4. | |
2878 | .TP | |
2879 | .I /proc/ioports | |
c13182ef | 2880 | This is a list of currently registered Input-Output port regions that |
fea681da MK |
2881 | are in use. |
2882 | .TP | |
2883 | .IR /proc/kallsyms " (since Linux 2.5.71)" | |
2884 | This holds the kernel exported symbol definitions used by the | |
2885 | .BR modules (X) | |
2886 | tools to dynamically link and bind loadable modules. | |
2887 | In Linux 2.5.47 and earlier, a similar file with slightly different syntax | |
2888 | was named | |
2889 | .IR ksyms . | |
2890 | .TP | |
2891 | .I /proc/kcore | |
2892 | This file represents the physical memory of the system and is stored | |
c13182ef MK |
2893 | in the ELF core file format. |
2894 | With this pseudo-file, and an unstripped | |
9a67332e MK |
2895 | kernel |
2896 | .RI ( /usr/src/linux/vmlinux ) | |
2897 | binary, GDB can be used to | |
fea681da | 2898 | examine the current state of any kernel data structures. |
2dad4c59 | 2899 | .IP |
fea681da | 2900 | The total length of the file is the size of physical memory (RAM) plus |
ee8655b5 | 2901 | 4\ KiB. |
fea681da | 2902 | .TP |
653836fb MK |
2903 | .IR /proc/keys " (since Linux 2.6.10)" |
2904 | See | |
2905 | .BR keyrings (7). | |
2906 | .TP | |
2907 | .IR /proc/key-users " (since Linux 2.6.10)" | |
2908 | See | |
2909 | .BR keyrings (7). | |
2910 | .TP | |
fea681da MK |
2911 | .I /proc/kmsg |
2912 | This file can be used instead of the | |
2913 | .BR syslog (2) | |
c13182ef MK |
2914 | system call to read kernel messages. |
2915 | A process must have superuser | |
fea681da | 2916 | privileges to read this file, and only one process should read this |
c13182ef MK |
2917 | file. |
2918 | This file should not be read if a syslog process is running | |
fea681da MK |
2919 | which uses the |
2920 | .BR syslog (2) | |
2921 | system call facility to log kernel messages. | |
2dad4c59 | 2922 | .IP |
fea681da | 2923 | Information in this file is retrieved with the |
c4517613 | 2924 | .BR dmesg (1) |
fea681da MK |
2925 | program. |
2926 | .TP | |
ff56ac8b MK |
2927 | .IR /proc/kpagecount " (since Linux 2.6.25)" |
2928 | This file contains a 64-bit count of the number of | |
2929 | times each physical page frame is mapped, | |
2930 | indexed by page frame number (see the discussion of | |
2931 | .IR /proc/[pid]/pagemap ). | |
2932 | .IP | |
2933 | The | |
2934 | .IR /proc/kpagecount | |
2935 | file is present only if the | |
2936 | .B CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR | |
59d566a9 MK |
2937 | kernel configuration option is enabled. |
2938 | .TP | |
2939 | .IR /proc/kpageflags " (since Linux 2.6.25)" | |
ef4f4031 | 2940 | This file contains 64-bit masks corresponding to each physical page frame; |
59d566a9 MK |
2941 | it is indexed by page frame number (see the discussion of |
2942 | .IR /proc/[pid]/pagemap ). | |
2943 | The bits are as follows: | |
2dad4c59 | 2944 | .IP |
59d566a9 MK |
2945 | 0 - KPF_LOCKED |
2946 | 1 - KPF_ERROR | |
2947 | 2 - KPF_REFERENCED | |
2948 | 3 - KPF_UPTODATE | |
2949 | 4 - KPF_DIRTY | |
2950 | 5 - KPF_LRU | |
2951 | 6 - KPF_ACTIVE | |
2952 | 7 - KPF_SLAB | |
2953 | 8 - KPF_WRITEBACK | |
2954 | 9 - KPF_RECLAIM | |
2955 | 10 - KPF_BUDDY | |
2956 | 11 - KPF_MMAP (since Linux 2.6.31) | |
2957 | 12 - KPF_ANON (since Linux 2.6.31) | |
2958 | 13 - KPF_SWAPCACHE (since Linux 2.6.31) | |
2959 | 14 - KPF_SWAPBACKED (since Linux 2.6.31) | |
2960 | 15 - KPF_COMPOUND_HEAD (since Linux 2.6.31) | |
2961 | 16 - KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL (since Linux 2.6.31) | |
d0ffc687 | 2962 | 17 - KPF_HUGE (since Linux 2.6.31) |
59d566a9 MK |
2963 | 18 - KPF_UNEVICTABLE (since Linux 2.6.31) |
2964 | 19 - KPF_HWPOISON (since Linux 2.6.31) | |
2965 | 20 - KPF_NOPAGE (since Linux 2.6.31) | |
2966 | 21 - KPF_KSM (since Linux 2.6.32) | |
2967 | 22 - KPF_THP (since Linux 3.4) | |
f38dfdf1 OE |
2968 | 23 - KPF_BALLOON (since Linux 4.0) |
2969 | 24 - KPF_ZERO_PAGE (since Linux 4.0) | |
2970 | 25 - KPF_IDLE (since Linux 4.3) | |
2dad4c59 | 2971 | .IP |
59d566a9 MK |
2972 | For further details on the meanings of these bits, |
2973 | see the kernel source file | |
2974 | .IR Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt . | |
2975 | Before kernel 2.6.29, | |
2976 | .\" commit ad3bdefe877afb47480418fdb05ecd42842de65e | |
2977 | .\" commit e07a4b9217d1e97d2f3a62b6b070efdc61212110 | |
2978 | .BR KPF_WRITEBACK , | |
2979 | .BR KPF_RECLAIM , | |
2980 | .BR KPF_BUDDY , | |
2981 | and | |
2982 | .BR KPF_LOCKED | |
2983 | did not report correctly. | |
2984 | .IP | |
2985 | The | |
2986 | .IR /proc/kpageflags | |
2987 | file is present only if the | |
2988 | .B CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR | |
ff56ac8b MK |
2989 | kernel configuration option is enabled. |
2990 | .TP | |
93f18cbb | 2991 | .IR /proc/ksyms " (Linux 1.1.23\(en2.5.47)" |
fea681da MK |
2992 | See |
2993 | .IR /proc/kallsyms . | |
2994 | .TP | |
2995 | .I /proc/loadavg | |
6b05dc38 MK |
2996 | The first three fields in this file are load average figures |
2997 | giving the number of jobs in the run queue (state R) | |
fea681da MK |
2998 | or waiting for disk I/O (state D) averaged over 1, 5, and 15 minutes. |
2999 | They are the same as the load average numbers given by | |
3000 | .BR uptime (1) | |
3001 | and other programs. | |
6b05dc38 | 3002 | The fourth field consists of two numbers separated by a slash (/). |
78fc91ec EDB |
3003 | The first of these is the number of currently runnable kernel |
3004 | scheduling entities (processes, threads). | |
6b05dc38 MK |
3005 | The value after the slash is the number of kernel scheduling entities |
3006 | that currently exist on the system. | |
3007 | The fifth field is the PID of the process that was most | |
3008 | recently created on the system. | |
fea681da MK |
3009 | .TP |
3010 | .I /proc/locks | |
3011 | This file shows current file locks | |
3012 | .RB ( flock "(2) and " fcntl (2)) | |
3013 | and leases | |
3014 | .RB ( fcntl (2)). | |
9f1002a1 MK |
3015 | The |
3016 | .BR lslocks (8) | |
3017 | command provides a bit more information about each lock. | |
fea681da | 3018 | .TP |
89dd5f8a | 3019 | .IR /proc/malloc " (only up to and including Linux 2.2)" |
59a40ed7 | 3020 | .\" It looks like this only ever did something back in 1.0 days |
90878f7c | 3021 | This file is present only if |
89dd5f8a | 3022 | .B CONFIG_DEBUG_MALLOC |
097585ed | 3023 | was defined during compilation. |
fea681da MK |
3024 | .TP |
3025 | .I /proc/meminfo | |
77b802ec MK |
3026 | This file reports statistics about memory usage on the system. |
3027 | It is used by | |
fea681da MK |
3028 | .BR free (1) |
3029 | to report the amount of free and used memory (both physical and swap) | |
3030 | on the system as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the | |
3031 | kernel. | |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3032 | Each line of the file consists of a parameter name, followed by a colon, |
3033 | the value of the parameter, and an option unit of measurement (e.g., "kB"). | |
3034 | The list below describes the parameter names and | |
3035 | the format specifier required to read the field value. | |
3036 | Except as noted below, | |
3037 | all of the fields have been present since at least Linux 2.6.0. | |
86cf87d7 | 3038 | Some fields are displayed only if the kernel was configured |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3039 | with various options; those dependencies are noted in the list. |
3040 | .RS | |
3041 | .TP | |
3042 | .IR MemTotal " %lu" | |
449dd4e2 | 3043 | Total usable RAM (i.e., physical RAM minus a few reserved |
99e91586 | 3044 | bits and the kernel binary code). |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3045 | .TP |
3046 | .IR MemFree " %lu" | |
7bccb7d4 DP |
3047 | The sum of |
3048 | .IR LowFree + HighFree . | |
3ba3d5b1 | 3049 | .TP |
8b4b1f68 MK |
3050 | .IR MemAvailable " %lu (since Linux 3.14)" |
3051 | An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new | |
3052 | applications, without swapping. | |
3053 | .TP | |
3ba3d5b1 | 3054 | .IR Buffers " %lu" |
99e91586 | 3055 | Relatively temporary storage for raw disk blocks that |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3056 | shouldn't get tremendously large (20MB or so). |
3057 | .TP | |
3058 | .IR Cached " %lu" | |
3059 | In-memory cache for files read from the disk (the page cache). | |
3060 | Doesn't include | |
3061 | .IR SwapCached . | |
3062 | .TP | |
3063 | .IR SwapCached " %lu" | |
3064 | Memory that once was swapped out, is swapped back in but | |
3065 | still also is in the swap file. | |
fa1d2749 | 3066 | (If memory pressure is high, these pages |
3ba3d5b1 | 3067 | don't need to be swapped out again because they are already |
99e91586 | 3068 | in the swap file. |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3069 | This saves I/O.) |
3070 | .TP | |
3071 | .IR Active " %lu" | |
3072 | Memory that has been used more recently and usually not | |
3073 | reclaimed unless absolutely necessary. | |
3074 | .TP | |
3075 | .IR Inactive " %lu" | |
3076 | Memory which has been less recently used. | |
3077 | It is more eligible to be reclaimed for other purposes. | |
3078 | .TP | |
3079 | .IR Active(anon) " %lu (since Linux 2.6.28)" | |
3080 | [To be documented.] | |
3081 | .TP | |
3082 | .IR Inactive(anon) " %lu (since Linux 2.6.28)" | |
3083 | [To be documented.] | |
3084 | .TP | |
3085 | .IR Active(file) " %lu (since Linux 2.6.28)" | |
3086 | [To be documented.] | |
3087 | .TP | |
3088 | .IR Inactive(file) " %lu (since Linux 2.6.28)" | |
3089 | [To be documented.] | |
3090 | .TP | |
3091 | .IR Unevictable " %lu (since Linux 2.6.28)" | |
3092 | (From Linux 2.6.28 to 2.6.30, | |
3093 | \fBCONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU\fP was required.) | |
3094 | [To be documented.] | |
3095 | .TP | |
46fbfc07 | 3096 | .IR Mlocked " %lu (since Linux 2.6.28)" |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3097 | (From Linux 2.6.28 to 2.6.30, |
3098 | \fBCONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU\fP was required.) | |
3099 | [To be documented.] | |
3100 | .TP | |
3101 | .IR HighTotal " %lu" | |
3102 | (Starting with Linux 2.6.19, \fBCONFIG_HIGHMEM\fP is required.) | |
3103 | Total amount of highmem. | |
99e91586 | 3104 | Highmem is all memory above ~860MB of physical memory. |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3105 | Highmem areas are for use by user-space programs, |
3106 | or for the page cache. | |
3107 | The kernel must use tricks to access | |
3108 | this memory, making it slower to access than lowmem. | |
3109 | .TP | |
3110 | .IR HighFree " %lu | |
3111 | (Starting with Linux 2.6.19, \fBCONFIG_HIGHMEM\fP is required.) | |
3112 | Amount of free highmem. | |
3113 | .TP | |
3114 | .IR LowTotal " %lu | |
3115 | (Starting with Linux 2.6.19, \fBCONFIG_HIGHMEM\fP is required.) | |
3116 | Total amount of lowmem. | |
3117 | Lowmem is memory which can be used for everything that | |
3118 | highmem can be used for, but it is also available for the | |
3119 | kernel's use for its own data structures. | |
3120 | Among many other things, | |
99e91586 | 3121 | it is where everything from |
7bccb7d4 DP |
3122 | .I Slab |
3123 | is allocated. | |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3124 | Bad things happen when you're out of lowmem. |
3125 | .TP | |
3126 | .IR LowFree " %lu | |
3127 | (Starting with Linux 2.6.19, \fBCONFIG_HIGHMEM\fP is required.) | |
3128 | Amount of free lowmem. | |
3129 | .TP | |
3130 | .IR MmapCopy " %lu (since Linux 2.6.29)" | |
99e91586 DP |
3131 | .RB ( CONFIG_MMU |
3132 | is required.) | |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3133 | [To be documented.] |
3134 | .TP | |
3135 | .IR SwapTotal " %lu" | |
3136 | Total amount of swap space available. | |
3137 | .TP | |
3138 | .IR SwapFree " %lu" | |
c16d4f25 | 3139 | Amount of swap space that is currently unused. |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3140 | .TP |
3141 | .IR Dirty " %lu" | |
3142 | Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk. | |
3143 | .TP | |
3144 | .IR Writeback " %lu" | |
3145 | Memory which is actively being written back to the disk. | |
3146 | .TP | |
3147 | .IR AnonPages " %lu (since Linux 2.6.18)" | |
3148 | Non-file backed pages mapped into user-space page tables. | |
3149 | .TP | |
3150 | .IR Mapped " %lu" | |
fda70f5b MK |
3151 | Files which have been mapped into memory (with |
3152 | .BR mmap (2)), | |
3153 | such as libraries. | |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3154 | .TP |
3155 | .IR Shmem " %lu (since Linux 2.6.32)" | |
eb775c04 MK |
3156 | Amount of memory consumed in |
3157 | .BR tmpfs (5) | |
3158 | filesystems. | |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3159 | .TP |
3160 | .IR Slab " %lu" | |
3161 | In-kernel data structures cache. | |
5a5bde70 MK |
3162 | (See |
3163 | .BR slabinfo (5).) | |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3164 | .TP |
3165 | .IR SReclaimable " %lu (since Linux 2.6.19)" | |
7bccb7d4 DP |
3166 | Part of |
3167 | .IR Slab , | |
3168 | that might be reclaimed, such as caches. | |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3169 | .TP |
3170 | .IR SUnreclaim " %lu (since Linux 2.6.19)" | |
7bccb7d4 DP |
3171 | Part of |
3172 | .IR Slab , | |
3173 | that cannot be reclaimed on memory pressure. | |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3174 | .TP |
3175 | .IR KernelStack " %lu (since Linux 2.6.32)" | |
3176 | Amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks. | |
3177 | .TP | |
3178 | .IR PageTables " %lu (since Linux 2.6.18)" | |
3179 | Amount of memory dedicated to the lowest level of page tables. | |
3180 | .TP | |
3181 | .IR Quicklists " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)" | |
3182 | (\fBCONFIG_QUICKLIST\fP is required.) | |
3183 | [To be documented.] | |
3184 | .TP | |
3185 | .IR NFS_Unstable " %lu (since Linux 2.6.18)" | |
3186 | NFS pages sent to the server, but not yet committed to stable storage. | |
3187 | .TP | |
3188 | .IR Bounce " %lu (since Linux 2.6.18)" | |
3189 | Memory used for block device "bounce buffers". | |
3190 | .TP | |
3191 | .IR WritebackTmp " %lu (since Linux 2.6.26)" | |
3192 | Memory used by FUSE for temporary writeback buffers. | |
3193 | .TP | |
3194 | .IR CommitLimit " %lu (since Linux 2.6.10)" | |
cd7b6c40 MK |
3195 | This is the total amount of memory currently available to |
3196 | be allocated on the system, expressed in kilobytes. | |
90878f7c MK |
3197 | This limit is adhered to |
3198 | only if strict overcommit accounting is enabled (mode 2 in | |
cd7b6c40 MK |
3199 | .IR /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory ). |
3200 | The limit is calculated according to the formula described under | |
3201 | .IR /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory . | |
3202 | For further details, see the kernel source file | |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3203 | .IR Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting . |
3204 | .TP | |
3205 | .IR Committed_AS " %lu" | |
3206 | The amount of memory presently allocated on the system. | |
3207 | The committed memory is a sum of all of the memory which | |
3208 | has been allocated by processes, even if it has not been | |
3209 | "used" by them as of yet. | |
3210 | A process which allocates 1GB of memory (using | |
3211 | .BR malloc (3) | |
33a0ccb2 | 3212 | or similar), but touches only 300MB of that memory will show up |
90878f7c | 3213 | as using only 300MB of memory even if it has the address space |
3ba3d5b1 | 3214 | allocated for the entire 1GB. |
2dad4c59 | 3215 | .IP |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3216 | This 1GB is memory which has been "committed" to by the VM |
3217 | and can be used at any time by the allocating application. | |
cd7b6c40 | 3218 | With strict overcommit enabled on the system (mode 2 in |
d9e0f03d | 3219 | .IR /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory ), |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3220 | allocations which would exceed the |
3221 | .I CommitLimit | |
cd7b6c40 | 3222 | will not be permitted. |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3223 | This is useful if one needs to guarantee that processes will not |
3224 | fail due to lack of memory once that memory has been successfully allocated. | |
3225 | .TP | |
3226 | .IR VmallocTotal " %lu" | |
3227 | Total size of vmalloc memory area. | |
3228 | .TP | |
3229 | .IR VmallocUsed " %lu" | |
3230 | Amount of vmalloc area which is used. | |
3231 | .TP | |
3232 | .IR VmallocChunk " %lu" | |
3233 | Largest contiguous block of vmalloc area which is free. | |
3234 | .TP | |
3235 | .IR HardwareCorrupted " %lu (since Linux 2.6.32)" | |
3236 | (\fBCONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE\fP is required.) | |
3237 | [To be documented.] | |
3238 | .TP | |
3239 | .IR AnonHugePages " %lu (since Linux 2.6.38)" | |
3240 | (\fBCONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE\fP is required.) | |
7fac88a9 | 3241 | Non-file backed huge pages mapped into user-space page tables. |
3ba3d5b1 | 3242 | .TP |
4ad958e1 MK |
3243 | .IR ShmemHugePages " %lu (since Linux 4.8)" |
3244 | (\fBCONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE\fP is required.) | |
4e07c70f MK |
3245 | Memory used by shared memory (shmem) and |
3246 | .BR tmpfs (5) | |
3247 | allocated with huge pages | |
4ad958e1 MK |
3248 | .TP |
3249 | .IR ShmemPmdMapped " %lu (since Linux 4.8)" | |
3250 | (\fBCONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE\fP is required.) | |
956e74b4 | 3251 | Shared memory mapped into user space with huge pages. |
4ad958e1 | 3252 | .TP |
43179f55 MK |
3253 | .IR CmaTotal " %lu (since Linux 3.1)" |
3254 | Total CMA (Contiguous Memory Allocator) pages. | |
3255 | (\fBCONFIG_CMA\fP is required.) | |
3256 | .TP | |
3257 | .IR CmaFree " %lu (since Linux 3.1)" | |
3258 | Free CMA (Contiguous Memory Allocator) pages. | |
3259 | (\fBCONFIG_CMA\fP is required.) | |
3260 | .TP | |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3261 | .IR HugePages_Total " %lu" |
3262 | (\fBCONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE\fP is required.) | |
3263 | The size of the pool of huge pages. | |
3264 | .TP | |
3265 | .IR HugePages_Free " %lu" | |
3266 | (\fBCONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE\fP is required.) | |
3267 | The number of huge pages in the pool that are not yet allocated. | |
3268 | .TP | |
3269 | .IR HugePages_Rsvd " %lu (since Linux 2.6.17)" | |
3270 | (\fBCONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE\fP is required.) | |
3271 | This is the number of huge pages for | |
3272 | which a commitment to allocate from the pool has been made, | |
3273 | but no allocation has yet been made. | |
3274 | These reserved huge pages | |
3275 | guarantee that an application will be able to allocate a | |
3276 | huge page from the pool of huge pages at fault time. | |
3277 | .TP | |
aa8a6b4f | 3278 | .IR HugePages_Surp " %lu (since Linux 2.6.24)" |
3ba3d5b1 MK |
3279 | (\fBCONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE\fP is required.) |
3280 | This is the number of huge pages in | |
3281 | the pool above the value in | |
3282 | .IR /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages . | |
3283 | The maximum number of surplus huge pages is controlled by | |
3284 | .IR /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages . | |
3285 | .TP | |
3286 | .IR Hugepagesize " %lu" | |
3287 | (\fBCONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE\fP is required.) | |
3288 | The size of huge pages. | |
d5268de1 MK |
3289 | .TP |
3290 | .IR DirectMap4k " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)" | |
3291 | Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 4kB pages. | |
3292 | (x86.) | |
3293 | .TP | |
3294 | .IR DirectMap4M " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)" | |
3295 | Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 4MB pages. | |
3296 | (x86 with | |
3297 | .BR CONFIG_X86_64 | |
3298 | or | |
3299 | .BR CONFIG_X86_PAE | |
3300 | enabled.) | |
3301 | .TP | |
3302 | .IR DirectMap2M " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)" | |
3303 | Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 2MB pages. | |
3304 | (x86 with neither | |
3305 | .BR CONFIG_X86_64 | |
3306 | nor | |
3307 | .BR CONFIG_X86_PAE | |
3308 | enabled.) | |
3309 | .TP | |
3310 | .IR DirectMap1G " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)" | |
3311 | (x86 with | |
3312 | .BR CONFIG_X86_64 | |
3313 | and | |
3314 | .B CONFIG_X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES | |
3315 | enabled.) | |
3ba3d5b1 | 3316 | .RE |
fea681da | 3317 | .TP |
aa341984 MK |
3318 | .I /proc/modules |
3319 | A text list of the modules that have been loaded by the system. | |
3320 | See also | |
3321 | .BR lsmod (8). | |
3322 | .TP | |
fea681da | 3323 | .I /proc/mounts |
c1eea65a | 3324 | Before kernel 2.4.19, this file was a list |
9ee4a2b6 | 3325 | of all the filesystems currently mounted on the system. |
ef5b47f6 MK |
3326 | With the introduction of per-process mount namespaces in Linux 2.4.19 (see |
3327 | .BR mount_namespaces (7)), | |
3328 | this file became a link to | |
c1eea65a | 3329 | .IR /proc/self/mounts , |
732e54dd | 3330 | which lists the mount points of the process's own mount namespace. |
fea681da | 3331 | The format of this file is documented in |
31e9a9ec | 3332 | .BR fstab (5). |
fea681da | 3333 | .TP |
fea681da | 3334 | .I /proc/mtrr |
c13182ef | 3335 | Memory Type Range Registers. |
66a9882e | 3336 | See the Linux kernel source file |
a8999e1f ES |
3337 | .I Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt |
3338 | .\" commit 7225e75144b9718cbbe1820d9c011c809d5773fd | |
3339 | (or | |
cfe70b66 | 3340 | .I Documentation/mtrr.txt |
a8999e1f | 3341 | before Linux 2.6.28) |
fea681da MK |
3342 | for details. |
3343 | .TP | |
3344 | .I /proc/net | |
ccb4bcdc MK |
3345 | This directory contains various files and subdirectories containing |
3346 | information about the networking layer. | |
3347 | The files contain ASCII structures and are, | |
59a40ed7 MK |
3348 | therefore, readable with |
3349 | .BR cat (1). | |
c13182ef | 3350 | However, the standard |
fea681da MK |
3351 | .BR netstat (8) |
3352 | suite provides much cleaner access to these files. | |
2dad4c59 | 3353 | .IP |
9fb88bc8 MK |
3354 | With the advent of network namespaces, |
3355 | various information relating to the network stack is virtualized (see | |
3356 | .BR namespaces (7)). | |
3357 | Thus, since Linux 2.6.25, | |
3358 | .\" commit e9720acd728a46cb40daa52c99a979f7c4ff195c | |
3359 | .IR /proc/net | |
3360 | is a symbolic link to the directory | |
3361 | .IR /proc/self/net , | |
3362 | which contains the same files and directories as listed below. | |
3363 | However, these files and directories now expose information | |
3364 | for the network namespace of which the process is a member. | |
fea681da MK |
3365 | .TP |
3366 | .I /proc/net/arp | |
3367 | This holds an ASCII readable dump of the kernel ARP table used for | |
c13182ef | 3368 | address resolutions. |
01d0a447 | 3369 | It will show both dynamically learned and preprogrammed ARP entries. |
c13182ef | 3370 | The format is: |
c1a022dc MK |
3371 | .IP |
3372 | .in 7n | |
3373 | .EX | |
fea681da MK |
3374 | IP address HW type Flags HW address Mask Device |
3375 | 192.168.0.50 0x1 0x2 00:50:BF:25:68:F3 * eth0 | |
3376 | 192.168.0.250 0x1 0xc 00:00:00:00:00:00 * eth0 | |
c1a022dc | 3377 | .EE |
fea681da | 3378 | .in |
c1a022dc | 3379 | .IP |
6c04f928 | 3380 | Here "IP address" is the IPv4 address of the machine and the "HW type" |
c13182ef MK |
3381 | is the hardware type of the address from RFC\ 826. |
3382 | The flags are the internal | |
9a67332e MK |
3383 | flags of the ARP structure (as defined in |
3384 | .IR /usr/include/linux/if_arp.h ) | |
3385 | and | |
6c04f928 | 3386 | the "HW address" is the data link layer mapping for that IP address if |
fea681da MK |
3387 | it is known. |
3388 | .TP | |
3389 | .I /proc/net/dev | |
c13182ef MK |
3390 | The dev pseudo-file contains network device status information. |
3391 | This gives | |
3392 | the number of received and sent packets, the number of errors and | |
fea681da | 3393 | collisions |
c13182ef MK |
3394 | and other basic statistics. |
3395 | These are used by the | |
fea681da | 3396 | .BR ifconfig (8) |
c13182ef MK |
3397 | program to report device status. |
3398 | The format is: | |
c1a022dc | 3399 | .IP |
fea681da | 3400 | .in 1n |
c1a022dc | 3401 | .EX |
fea681da MK |
3402 | Inter-| Receive | Transmit |
3403 | face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed | |
3404 | lo: 2776770 11307 0 0 0 0 0 0 2776770 11307 0 0 0 0 0 0 | |
3405 | eth0: 1215645 2751 0 0 0 0 0 0 1782404 4324 0 0 0 427 0 0 | |
3406 | ppp0: 1622270 5552 1 0 0 0 0 0 354130 5669 0 0 0 0 0 0 | |
3407 | tap0: 7714 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 7714 81 0 0 0 0 0 0 | |
c1a022dc | 3408 | .EE |
fea681da | 3409 | .in |
fea681da MK |
3410 | .\" .TP |
3411 | .\" .I /proc/net/ipx | |
3412 | .\" No information. | |
3413 | .\" .TP | |
3414 | .\" .I /proc/net/ipx_route | |
3415 | .\" No information. | |
3416 | .TP | |
3417 | .I /proc/net/dev_mcast | |
3418 | Defined in | |
3419 | .IR /usr/src/linux/net/core/dev_mcast.c : | |
37d5e699 MK |
3420 | .IP |
3421 | .in +4 | |
3422 | .EX | |
9fdfa163 | 3423 | indx interface_name dmi_u dmi_g dmi_address |
fea681da MK |
3424 | 2 eth0 1 0 01005e000001 |
3425 | 3 eth1 1 0 01005e000001 | |
3426 | 4 eth2 1 0 01005e000001 | |
37d5e699 | 3427 | .EE |
fea681da | 3428 | .in |
fea681da MK |
3429 | .TP |
3430 | .I /proc/net/igmp | |
c13182ef MK |
3431 | Internet Group Management Protocol. |
3432 | Defined in | |
fea681da MK |
3433 | .IR /usr/src/linux/net/core/igmp.c . |
3434 | .TP | |
3435 | .I /proc/net/rarp | |
3436 | This file uses the same format as the | |
3437 | .I arp | |
3438 | file and contains the current reverse mapping database used to provide | |
3439 | .BR rarp (8) | |
c13182ef MK |
3440 | reverse address lookup services. |
3441 | If RARP is not configured into the | |
fea681da MK |
3442 | kernel, |
3443 | this file will not be present. | |
3444 | .TP | |
3445 | .I /proc/net/raw | |
c13182ef MK |
3446 | Holds a dump of the RAW socket table. |
3447 | Much of the information is not of | |
fea681da | 3448 | use |
c13182ef | 3449 | apart from debugging. |
6c04f928 | 3450 | The "sl" value is the kernel hash slot for the |
fea681da | 3451 | socket, |
6c04f928 MK |
3452 | the "local_address" is the local address and protocol number pair. |
3453 | \&"St" is | |
c13182ef MK |
3454 | the internal status of the socket. |
3455 | The "tx_queue" and "rx_queue" are the | |
fea681da | 3456 | outgoing and incoming data queue in terms of kernel memory usage. |
94e9d9fe | 3457 | The "tr", "tm\->when", and "rexmits" fields are not used by RAW. |
fdc196f5 MK |
3458 | The "uid" |
3459 | field holds the effective UID of the creator of the socket. | |
fea681da MK |
3460 | .\" .TP |
3461 | .\" .I /proc/net/route | |
3462 | .\" No information, but looks similar to | |
3463 | .\" .BR route (8). | |
3464 | .TP | |
3465 | .I /proc/net/snmp | |
c13182ef | 3466 | This file holds the ASCII data needed for the IP, ICMP, TCP, and UDP |
fea681da | 3467 | management |
763f0e47 | 3468 | information bases for an SNMP agent. |
fea681da MK |
3469 | .TP |
3470 | .I /proc/net/tcp | |
c13182ef MK |
3471 | Holds a dump of the TCP socket table. |
3472 | Much of the information is not | |
3473 | of use apart from debugging. | |
3474 | The "sl" value is the kernel hash slot | |
6beb1671 MK |
3475 | for the socket, the "local_address" is the local address and port number pair. |
3476 | The "rem_address" is the remote address and port number pair | |
6c04f928 MK |
3477 | (if connected). |
3478 | \&"St" is the internal status of the socket. | |
3479 | The "tx_queue" and "rx_queue" are the | |
fea681da | 3480 | outgoing and incoming data queue in terms of kernel memory usage. |
94e9d9fe | 3481 | The "tr", "tm\->when", and "rexmits" fields hold internal information of |
f33774c4 | 3482 | the kernel socket state and are useful only for debugging. |
fdc196f5 MK |
3483 | The "uid" |
3484 | field holds the effective UID of the creator of the socket. | |
fea681da MK |
3485 | .TP |
3486 | .I /proc/net/udp | |
c13182ef MK |
3487 | Holds a dump of the UDP socket table. |
3488 | Much of the information is not of | |
3489 | use apart from debugging. | |
3490 | The "sl" value is the kernel hash slot for the | |
6beb1671 MK |
3491 | socket, the "local_address" is the local address and port number pair. |
3492 | The "rem_address" is the remote address and port number pair | |
f2d607ee MK |
3493 | (if connected). |
3494 | "St" is the internal status of the socket. | |
fea681da | 3495 | The "tx_queue" and "rx_queue" are the outgoing and incoming data queue |
c13182ef | 3496 | in terms of kernel memory usage. |
94e9d9fe | 3497 | The "tr", "tm\->when", and "rexmits" fields |
c13182ef | 3498 | are not used by UDP. |
fdc196f5 MK |
3499 | The "uid" |
3500 | field holds the effective UID of the creator of the socket. | |
fea681da | 3501 | The format is: |
c1a022dc | 3502 | .IP |
fea681da | 3503 | .in 1n |
c1a022dc | 3504 | .EX |
94e9d9fe | 3505 | sl local_address rem_address st tx_queue rx_queue tr rexmits tm\->when uid |
fea681da MK |
3506 | 1: 01642C89:0201 0C642C89:03FF 01 00000000:00000001 01:000071BA 00000000 0 |
3507 | 1: 00000000:0801 00000000:0000 0A 00000000:00000000 00:00000000 6F000100 0 | |
3508 | 1: 00000000:0201 00000000:0000 0A 00000000:00000000 00:00000000 00000000 0 | |
c1a022dc | 3509 | .EE |
fea681da | 3510 | .in |
c1a022dc | 3511 | .IP |
fea681da MK |
3512 | .TP |
3513 | .I /proc/net/unix | |
008f1ecc | 3514 | Lists the UNIX domain sockets present within the system and their |
c13182ef MK |
3515 | status. |
3516 | The format is: | |
c1a022dc MK |
3517 | .IP |
3518 | .in 1n | |
3519 | .EX | |
fea681da MK |
3520 | Num RefCount Protocol Flags Type St Path |
3521 | 0: 00000002 00000000 00000000 0001 03 | |
3522 | 1: 00000001 00000000 00010000 0001 01 /dev/printer | |
c1a022dc MK |
3523 | .EE |
3524 | .in | |
3525 | .IP | |
756f55f6 MK |
3526 | The fields are as follows: |
3527 | .RS | |
3528 | .TP 10 | |
3529 | .IR Num : | |
3530 | the kernel table slot number. | |
3531 | .TP | |
3532 | .IR RefCount : | |
3533 | the number of users of the socket. | |
3534 | .TP | |
3535 | .IR Protocol : | |
3536 | currently always 0. | |
3537 | .TP | |
3538 | .IR Flags : | |
3539 | the internal kernel flags holding the status of the socket. | |
3540 | .TP | |
3541 | .IR Type : | |
a405066e MK |
3542 | the socket type. |
3543 | For | |
3544 | .BR SOCK_STREAM | |
3545 | sockets, this is 0001; for | |
3546 | .BR SOCK_DGRAM | |
3547 | sockets, it is 0002; and for | |
3548 | .BR SOCK_SEQPACKET | |
3549 | sockets, it is 0005. | |
756f55f6 MK |
3550 | .TP |
3551 | .IR St : | |
3552 | the internal state of the socket. | |
3553 | .TP | |
3554 | .IR Path : | |
3555 | the bound path (if any) of the socket. | |
8f8a46fb MK |
3556 | Sockets in the abstract namespace are included in the list, |
3557 | and are shown with a | |
3558 | .I Path | |
3559 | that commences with the character '@'. | |
756f55f6 | 3560 | .RE |
fea681da | 3561 | .TP |
ed8de0e4 | 3562 | .I /proc/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue |
6f858d5c | 3563 | This file contains information about netfilter user-space queueing, if used. |
f2d607ee MK |
3564 | Each line represents a queue. |
3565 | Queues that have not been subscribed to | |
6f858d5c | 3566 | by user space are not shown. |
37d5e699 MK |
3567 | .IP |
3568 | .in +4n | |
3569 | .EX | |
ed8de0e4 FW |
3570 | 1 4207 0 2 65535 0 0 0 1 |
3571 | (1) (2) (3)(4) (5) (6) (7) (8) | |
37d5e699 MK |
3572 | .EE |
3573 | .in | |
ed8de0e4 FW |
3574 | .IP |
3575 | The fields in each line are: | |
3576 | .RS 7 | |
3577 | .TP 5 | |
3578 | (1) | |
f2d607ee MK |
3579 | The ID of the queue. |
3580 | This matches what is specified in the | |
ed8de0e4 FW |
3581 | .B \-\-queue\-num |
3582 | or | |
3583 | .B \-\-queue\-balance | |
3584 | options to the | |
3585 | .BR iptables (8) | |
f2d607ee MK |
3586 | NFQUEUE target. |
3587 | See | |
ed8de0e4 FW |
3588 | .BR iptables-extensions (8) |
3589 | for more information. | |
3590 | .TP | |
3591 | (2) | |
7672e08e | 3592 | The netlink port ID subscribed to the queue. |
ed8de0e4 FW |
3593 | .TP |
3594 | (3) | |
3595 | The number of packets currently queued and waiting to be processed by | |
3596 | the application. | |
3597 | .TP | |
3598 | (4) | |
f2d607ee MK |
3599 | The copy mode of the queue. |
3600 | It is either 1 (metadata only) or 2 | |
6f858d5c | 3601 | (also copy payload data to user space). |
ed8de0e4 FW |
3602 | .TP |
3603 | (5) | |
1dea597b | 3604 | Copy range; that is, how many bytes of packet payload should be copied to |
6f858d5c | 3605 | user space at most. |
ed8de0e4 FW |
3606 | .TP |
3607 | (6) | |
f2d607ee MK |
3608 | queue dropped. |
3609 | Number of packets that had to be dropped by the kernel because | |
6f858d5c | 3610 | too many packets are already waiting for user space to send back the mandatory |
ed8de0e4 FW |
3611 | accept/drop verdicts. |
3612 | .TP | |
3613 | (7) | |
f2d607ee MK |
3614 | queue user dropped. |
3615 | Number of packets that were dropped within the netlink | |
3616 | subsystem. | |
3617 | Such drops usually happen when the corresponding socket buffer is | |
6f858d5c | 3618 | full; that is, user space is not able to read messages fast enough. |
ed8de0e4 FW |
3619 | .TP |
3620 | (8) | |
f2d607ee MK |
3621 | sequence number. |
3622 | Every queued packet is associated with a (32-bit) | |
ed8de0e4 FW |
3623 | monotonically-increasing sequence number. |
3624 | This shows the ID of the most recent packet queued. | |
3625 | .RE | |
3626 | .IP | |
f33774c4 | 3627 | The last number exists only for compatibility reasons and is always 1. |
ed8de0e4 | 3628 | .TP |
fea681da | 3629 | .I /proc/partitions |
f042d149 MK |
3630 | Contains the major and minor numbers of each partition as well as the number |
3631 | of 1024-byte blocks and the partition name. | |
fea681da MK |
3632 | .TP |
3633 | .I /proc/pci | |
3634 | This is a listing of all PCI devices found during kernel initialization | |
3635 | and their configuration. | |
2dad4c59 | 3636 | .IP |
59a40ed7 MK |
3637 | This file has been deprecated in favor of a new |
3638 | .I /proc | |
2990d781 MK |
3639 | interface for PCI |
3640 | .RI ( /proc/bus/pci ). | |
3641 | It became optional in Linux 2.2 (available with | |
3642 | .B CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC | |
3643 | set at kernel compilation). | |
24b74457 | 3644 | It became once more nonoptionally enabled in Linux 2.4. |
2990d781 MK |
3645 | Next, it was deprecated in Linux 2.6 (still available with |
3646 | .B CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY_PROC | |
3647 | set), and finally removed altogether since Linux 2.6.17. | |
43d42cc0 | 3648 | .\" FIXME Document /proc/sched_debug (since Linux 2.6.23) |
69119dc7 | 3649 | .\" See also /proc/[pid]/sched |
caea7868 MK |
3650 | .TP |
3651 | .IR /proc/profile " (since Linux 2.4)" | |
3652 | This file is present only if the kernel was booted with the | |
3653 | .I profile=1 | |
3654 | command-line option. | |
3655 | It exposes kernel profiling information in a binary format for use by | |
3656 | .BR readprofile (1). | |
3657 | Writing (e.g., an empty string) to this file resets the profiling counters; | |
3658 | on some architectures, | |
3659 | writing a binary integer "profiling multiplier" of size | |
3660 | .IR sizeof(int) | |
8a3ac89a | 3661 | sets the profiling interrupt frequency. |
fea681da MK |
3662 | .TP |
3663 | .I /proc/scsi | |
59a40ed7 MK |
3664 | A directory with the |
3665 | .I scsi | |
3666 | mid-level pseudo-file and various SCSI low-level | |
2990d781 MK |
3667 | driver directories, |
3668 | which contain a file for each SCSI host in this system, all of | |
c13182ef MK |
3669 | which give the status of some part of the SCSI IO subsystem. |
3670 | These files contain ASCII structures and are, therefore, readable with | |
2990d781 | 3671 | .BR cat (1). |
2dad4c59 | 3672 | .IP |
c13182ef | 3673 | You can also write to some of the files to reconfigure the subsystem or |
59a40ed7 | 3674 | switch certain features on or off. |
fea681da MK |
3675 | .TP |
3676 | .I /proc/scsi/scsi | |
c13182ef | 3677 | This is a listing of all SCSI devices known to the kernel. |
59a40ed7 | 3678 | The listing is similar to the one seen during bootup. |
c13182ef | 3679 | scsi currently supports only the \fIadd-single-device\fP command which |
59a40ed7 | 3680 | allows root to add a hotplugged device to the list of known devices. |
2dad4c59 | 3681 | .IP |
59a40ed7 | 3682 | The command |
37d5e699 | 3683 | .IP |
59a40ed7 | 3684 | .in +4n |
37d5e699 | 3685 | .EX |
59a40ed7 | 3686 | echo \(aqscsi add-single-device 1 0 5 0\(aq > /proc/scsi/scsi |
37d5e699 | 3687 | .EE |
59a40ed7 | 3688 | .in |
37d5e699 | 3689 | .IP |
c13182ef MK |
3690 | will cause |
3691 | host scsi1 to scan on SCSI channel 0 for a device on ID 5 LUN 0. | |
3692 | If there | |
fea681da MK |
3693 | is already a device known on this address or the address is invalid, an |
3694 | error will be returned. | |
3695 | .TP | |
3696 | .I /proc/scsi/[drivername] | |
c13182ef MK |
3697 | \fI[drivername]\fP can currently be NCR53c7xx, aha152x, aha1542, aha1740, |
3698 | aic7xxx, buslogic, eata_dma, eata_pio, fdomain, in2000, pas16, qlogic, | |
3699 | scsi_debug, seagate, t128, u15-24f, ultrastore, or wd7000. | |
3700 | These directories show up for all drivers that registered at least one | |
59a40ed7 | 3701 | SCSI HBA. |
c13182ef | 3702 | Every directory contains one file per registered host. |
59a40ed7 | 3703 | Every host-file is named after the number the host was assigned during |
c13182ef | 3704 | initialization. |
2dad4c59 | 3705 | .IP |
c13182ef | 3706 | Reading these files will usually show driver and host configuration, |
f78ed33a | 3707 | statistics, and so on. |
2dad4c59 | 3708 | .IP |
fea681da MK |
3709 | Writing to these files allows different things on different hosts. |
3710 | For example, with the \fIlatency\fP and \fInolatency\fP commands, | |
3711 | root can switch on and off command latency measurement code in the | |
c13182ef MK |
3712 | eata_dma driver. |
3713 | With the \fIlockup\fP and \fIunlock\fP commands, | |
3714 | root can control bus lockups simulated by the scsi_debug driver. | |
fea681da MK |
3715 | .TP |
3716 | .I /proc/self | |
59a40ed7 MK |
3717 | This directory refers to the process accessing the |
3718 | .I /proc | |
9ee4a2b6 | 3719 | filesystem, |
59a40ed7 MK |
3720 | and is identical to the |
3721 | .I /proc | |
3722 | directory named by the process ID of the same process. | |
fea681da MK |
3723 | .TP |
3724 | .I /proc/slabinfo | |
c13182ef | 3725 | Information about kernel caches. |
c13182ef | 3726 | See |
fea681da MK |
3727 | .BR slabinfo (5) |
3728 | for details. | |
3729 | .TP | |
3730 | .I /proc/stat | |
c13182ef MK |
3731 | kernel/system statistics. |
3732 | Varies with architecture. | |
3733 | Common | |
fea681da MK |
3734 | entries include: |
3735 | .RS | |
3736 | .TP | |
46f6dbe8 ES |
3737 | .I cpu 10132153 290696 3084719 46828483 16683 0 25195 0 175628 0 |
3738 | .TQ | |
3739 | .I cpu0 1393280 32966 572056 13343292 6130 0 17875 0 23933 0 | |
bfbfcd18 | 3740 | The amount of time, measured in units of |
268f000b MK |
3741 | USER_HZ (1/100ths of a second on most architectures, use |
3742 | .IR sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) | |
3743 | to obtain the right value), | |
b81087ab | 3744 | .\" 1024 on Alpha and ia64 |
46f6dbe8 ES |
3745 | that the system ("cpu" line) or the specific CPU ("cpu\fIN\fR" line) |
3746 | spent in various states: | |
ae3b8047 MK |
3747 | .RS |
3748 | .TP | |
3749 | .I user | |
ea0841f6 | 3750 | (1) Time spent in user mode. |
ae3b8047 MK |
3751 | .TP |
3752 | .I nice | |
0633f951 | 3753 | (2) Time spent in user mode with low priority (nice). |
9f1b9726 | 3754 | .TP |
ae3b8047 | 3755 | .I system |
0633f951 | 3756 | (3) Time spent in system mode. |
ae3b8047 MK |
3757 | .TP |
3758 | .I idle | |
ea0841f6 | 3759 | (4) Time spent in the idle task. |
bea08fec | 3760 | .\" FIXME . Actually, the following info about the /proc/stat 'cpu' field |
e04a1f93 MK |
3761 | .\" does not seem to be quite right (at least in 2.6.12 or 3.6): |
3762 | .\" the idle time in /proc/uptime does not quite match this value | |
3763 | This value should be USER_HZ times the | |
4cb1deb7 MK |
3764 | second entry in the |
3765 | .I /proc/uptime | |
3766 | pseudo-file. | |
ae3b8047 MK |
3767 | .TP |
3768 | .IR iowait " (since Linux 2.5.41)" | |
ea0841f6 | 3769 | (5) Time waiting for I/O to complete. |
e0a73a31 MK |
3770 | This value is not reliable, for the following reasons: |
3771 | .\" See kernel commit 9c240d757658a3ae9968dd309e674c61f07c7f48 | |
3772 | .RS | |
3773 | .IP 1. 3 | |
3774 | The CPU will not wait for I/O to complete; | |
3775 | iowait is the time that a task is waiting for I/O to complete. | |
3776 | When a CPU goes into idle state for outstanding task I/O, | |
3777 | another task will be scheduled on this CPU. | |
3778 | .IP 2. | |
3779 | On a multi-core CPU, | |
3780 | the task waiting for I/O to complete is not running on any CPU, | |
3781 | so the iowait of each CPU is difficult to calculate. | |
3782 | .IP 3. | |
3783 | The value in this field may | |
3784 | .I decrease | |
3785 | in certain conditions. | |
2d3fb75b | 3786 | .RE |
ae3b8047 MK |
3787 | .TP |
3788 | .IR irq " (since Linux 2.6.0-test4)" | |
ea0841f6 | 3789 | (6) Time servicing interrupts. |
ae3b8047 | 3790 | .TP |
0633f951 | 3791 | .IR softirq " (since Linux 2.6.0-test4)" |
ea0841f6 | 3792 | (7) Time servicing softirqs. |
ae3b8047 MK |
3793 | .TP |
3794 | .IR steal " (since Linux 2.6.11)" | |
ea0841f6 | 3795 | (8) Stolen time, which is the time spent in other operating systems when |
9de1f6cc | 3796 | running in a virtualized environment |
ae3b8047 MK |
3797 | .TP |
3798 | .IR guest " (since Linux 2.6.24)" | |
0633f951 | 3799 | (9) Time spent running a virtual CPU for guest |
afef1764 | 3800 | operating systems under the control of the Linux kernel. |
14c06953 | 3801 | .\" See Changelog entry for 5e84cfde51cf303d368fcb48f22059f37b3872de |
d4fd4120 MK |
3802 | .TP |
3803 | .IR guest_nice " (since Linux 2.6.33)" | |
3804 | .\" commit ce0e7b28fb75cb003cfc8d0238613aaf1c55e797 | |
3805 | (10) Time spent running a niced guest (virtual CPU for guest | |
3806 | operating systems under the control of the Linux kernel). | |
ae3b8047 | 3807 | .RE |
fea681da MK |
3808 | .TP |
3809 | \fIpage 5741 1808\fP | |
3810 | The number of pages the system paged in and the number that were paged | |
3811 | out (from disk). | |
3812 | .TP | |
3813 | \fIswap 1 0\fP | |
3814 | The number of swap pages that have been brought in and out. | |
3815 | .TP | |
bea08fec | 3816 | .\" FIXME . The following is not the full picture for the 'intr' of |
777f5a9e | 3817 | .\" /proc/stat on 2.6: |
fea681da | 3818 | \fIintr 1462898\fP |
bfbfcd18 MK |
3819 | This line shows counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, |
3820 | for each of the possible system interrupts. | |
d63ff76e | 3821 | The first column is the total of all interrupts serviced |
d6a56978 MK |
3822 | including unnumbered architecture specific interrupts; |
3823 | each subsequent column is the total for that particular numbered interrupt. | |
d63ff76e | 3824 | Unnumbered interrupts are not shown, only summed into the total. |
fea681da MK |
3825 | .TP |
3826 | \fIdisk_io: (2,0):(31,30,5764,1,2) (3,0):\fP... | |
636297e9 | 3827 | (major,disk_idx):(noinfo, read_io_ops, blks_read, write_io_ops, blks_written) |
bfbfcd18 MK |
3828 | .br |
3829 | (Linux 2.4 only) | |
fea681da MK |
3830 | .TP |
3831 | \fIctxt 115315\fP | |
3832 | The number of context switches that the system underwent. | |
3833 | .TP | |
3834 | \fIbtime 769041601\fP | |
f49c451a | 3835 | boot time, in seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC). |
fea681da MK |
3836 | .TP |
3837 | \fIprocesses 86031\fP | |
3838 | Number of forks since boot. | |
bfbfcd18 MK |
3839 | .TP |
3840 | \fIprocs_running 6\fP | |
3841 | Number of processes in runnable state. | |
5fab2e7c | 3842 | (Linux 2.5.45 onward.) |
bfbfcd18 MK |
3843 | .TP |
3844 | \fIprocs_blocked 2\fP | |
3845 | Number of processes blocked waiting for I/O to complete. | |
5fab2e7c | 3846 | (Linux 2.5.45 onward.) |
76f6f102 ES |
3847 | .TP |
3848 | .I softirq 229245889 94 60001584 13619 5175704 2471304 28 51212741 59130143 0 51240672 | |
3849 | .\" commit d3d64df21d3d0de675a0d3ffa7c10514f3644b30 | |
3850 | This line shows the number of softirq for all CPUs. | |
3851 | The first column is the total of all softirqs and | |
3852 | each subsequent column is the total for particular softirq. | |
d7f23d0b | 3853 | (Linux 2.6.31 onward.) |
fea681da MK |
3854 | .RE |
3855 | .TP | |
3856 | .I /proc/swaps | |
c13182ef MK |
3857 | Swap areas in use. |
3858 | See also | |
fea681da MK |
3859 | .BR swapon (8). |
3860 | .TP | |
3861 | .I /proc/sys | |
3862 | This directory (present since 1.3.57) contains a number of files | |
3863 | and subdirectories corresponding to kernel variables. | |
3864 | These variables can be read and sometimes modified using | |
9ee4a2b6 | 3865 | the \fI/proc\fP filesystem, and the (deprecated) |
fea681da | 3866 | .BR sysctl (2) |
c13182ef | 3867 | system call. |
2dad4c59 | 3868 | .IP |
e8aa7100 | 3869 | String values may be terminated by either \(aq\\0\(aq or \(aq\\n\(aq. |
2dad4c59 | 3870 | .IP |
84ff8c1e HS |
3871 | Integer and long values may be written either in decimal or in |
3872 | hexadecimal notation (e.g. 0x3FFF). | |
e8aa7100 MK |
3873 | When writing multiple integer or long values, these may be separated |
3874 | by any of the following whitespace characters: | |
3875 | \(aq\ \(aq, \(aq\\t\(aq, or \(aq\\n\(aq. | |
3876 | Using other separators leads to the error | |
84ff8c1e | 3877 | .BR EINVAL . |
fea681da | 3878 | .TP |
6ab7c0aa | 3879 | .IR /proc/sys/abi " (since Linux 2.4.10)" |
fea681da | 3880 | This directory may contain files with application binary information. |
6ab7c0aa | 3881 | .\" On some systems, it is not present. |
66a9882e | 3882 | See the Linux kernel source file |
6ab7c0aa MK |
3883 | .I Documentation/sysctl/abi.txt |
3884 | for more information. | |
fea681da MK |
3885 | .TP |
3886 | .I /proc/sys/debug | |
3887 | This directory may be empty. | |
3888 | .TP | |
3889 | .I /proc/sys/dev | |
e2badfdf | 3890 | This directory contains device-specific information (e.g., |
9a67332e | 3891 | .IR dev/cdrom/info ). |
fea681da MK |
3892 | On |
3893 | some systems, it may be empty. | |
3894 | .TP | |
3895 | .I /proc/sys/fs | |
49236d3c | 3896 | This directory contains the files and subdirectories for kernel variables |
9ee4a2b6 | 3897 | related to filesystems. |
fea681da MK |
3898 | .TP |
3899 | .I /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc | |
c13182ef | 3900 | Documentation for files in this directory can be found |
a2923df0 MK |
3901 | in the Linux kernel source in the file |
3902 | .IR Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst | |
3903 | (or in | |
3904 | .IR Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt | |
3905 | on older kernels). | |
fea681da | 3906 | .TP |
59a40ed7 MK |
3907 | .IR /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state " (since Linux 2.2)" |
3908 | This file contains information about the status of the | |
3909 | directory cache (dcache). | |
3910 | The file contains six numbers, | |
c13182ef | 3911 | .IR nr_dentry ", " nr_unused ", " age_limit " (age in seconds), " |
59a40ed7 | 3912 | .I want_pages |
fea681da | 3913 | (pages requested by system) and two dummy values. |
59a40ed7 MK |
3914 | .RS |
3915 | .IP * 2 | |
3916 | .I nr_dentry | |
3917 | is the number of allocated dentries (dcache entries). | |
3918 | This field is unused in Linux 2.2. | |
3919 | .IP * | |
3920 | .I nr_unused | |
3921 | is the number of unused dentries. | |
3922 | .IP * | |
3923 | .I age_limit | |
3924 | .\" looks like this is unused in kernels 2.2 to 2.6 | |
3925 | is the age in seconds after which dcache entries | |
3926 | can be reclaimed when memory is short. | |
3927 | .IP * | |
3928 | .I want_pages | |
3929 | .\" looks like this is unused in kernels 2.2 to 2.6 | |
c7094399 | 3930 | is nonzero when the kernel has called shrink_dcache_pages() and the |
fea681da | 3931 | dcache isn't pruned yet. |
59a40ed7 | 3932 | .RE |
fea681da MK |
3933 | .TP |
3934 | .I /proc/sys/fs/dir-notify-enable | |
3935 | This file can be used to disable or enable the | |
3936 | .I dnotify | |
3937 | interface described in | |
3938 | .BR fcntl (2) | |
3939 | on a system-wide basis. | |
3940 | A value of 0 in this file disables the interface, | |
3941 | and a value of 1 enables it. | |
3942 | .TP | |
3943 | .I /proc/sys/fs/dquot-max | |
3944 | This file shows the maximum number of cached disk quota entries. | |
3945 | On some (2.4) systems, it is not present. | |
3946 | If the number of free cached disk quota entries is very low and | |
3947 | you have some awesome number of simultaneous system users, | |
3948 | you might want to raise the limit. | |
3949 | .TP | |
3950 | .I /proc/sys/fs/dquot-nr | |
3951 | This file shows the number of allocated disk quota | |
3952 | entries and the number of free disk quota entries. | |
3953 | .TP | |
24cb4a4b | 3954 | .IR /proc/sys/fs/epoll " (since Linux 2.6.28)" |
242b46af MK |
3955 | This directory contains the file |
3956 | .IR max_user_watches , | |
24cb4a4b MK |
3957 | which can be used to limit the amount of kernel memory consumed by the |
3958 | .I epoll | |
3959 | interface. | |
3960 | For further details, see | |