On Fri, 25 May 2007 22:12:55 +0900 Kawai, Hidehiro wrote: > This patch adds the documentation for /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter. > > Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 38 insertions(+) > > Index: linux-2.6.22-rc2-mm1/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.22-rc2-mm1.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > +++ linux-2.6.22-rc2-mm1/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Table of Contents > 2.12 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score > 2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score > 2.14 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields > + 2.15 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings
Looks good. Just one typo below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Preface > @@ -2135,4 +2136,41 @@ those 64-bit counters, process A could s > More information about this can be found within the taskstats documentation > in > Documentation/accounting. > > +2.15 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings > +--------------------------------------------------------------- > +When a process is dumped, all anonymous memory is written to a core file as > +long as the size of the core file isn't limited. But sometimes we don't want > +to dump some memory segments, for example, huge shared memory. Conversely, > +sometimes we wnat to save file-backed memory segments into a core file, not want > +only the individual files. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/