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<section id="the-proc-filesystem">
<h1>The /proc Filesystem<a class="headerlink" href="#the-proc-filesystem" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<tbody>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>/proc/sys</p></td>
<td><p>Terrehon Bowden <<a class="reference external" href="mailto:terrehon%40pacbell.net">terrehon<span>@</span>pacbell<span>.</span>net</a>>,
Bodo Bauer <<a class="reference external" href="mailto:bb%40ricochet.net">bb<span>@</span>ricochet<span>.</span>net</a>></p></td>
<td><p>October 7 1999</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>2.4.x update</p></td>
<td><p>Jorge Nerin <<a class="reference external" href="mailto:comandante%40zaralinux.com">comandante<span>@</span>zaralinux<span>.</span>com</a>></p></td>
<td><p>November 14 2000</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>move /proc/sys</p></td>
<td><p>Shen Feng <<a class="reference external" href="mailto:shen%40cn.fujitsu.com">shen<span>@</span>cn<span>.</span>fujitsu<span>.</span>com</a>></p></td>
<td><p>April 1 2009</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>fixes/update part 1.1</p></td>
<td><p>Stefani Seibold <<a class="reference external" href="mailto:stefani%40seibold.net">stefani<span>@</span>seibold<span>.</span>net</a>></p></td>
<td><p>June 9 2009</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<section id="preface">
<h2>Preface<a class="headerlink" href="#preface" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<section id="introduction-credits">
<h3>0.1 Introduction/Credits<a class="headerlink" href="#introduction-credits" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>We’d like to thank Alan Cox, Rik van Riel, and Alexey Kuznetsov and a lot of
other people for help compiling this documentation. We’d also like to extend a
special thank you to Andi Kleen for documentation, which we relied on heavily
to create this document, as well as the additional information he provided.
Thanks to everybody else who contributed source or docs to the Linux kernel
and helped create a great piece of software... :)</p>
<p>The latest version of this document is available online at
<a class="reference external" href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/proc.html">https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/proc.html</a></p>
</section>
<section id="legal-stuff">
<h3>0.2 Legal Stuff<a class="headerlink" href="#legal-stuff" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>We don’t guarantee the correctness of this document, and if you come to us
complaining about how you screwed up your system because of incorrect
documentation, we won’t feel responsible...</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="chapter-1-collecting-system-information">
<h2>Chapter 1: Collecting System Information<a class="headerlink" href="#chapter-1-collecting-system-information" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<section id="in-this-chapter">
<h3>In This Chapter<a class="headerlink" href="#in-this-chapter" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Investigating the properties of the pseudo file system /proc and its
ability to provide information on the running Linux system</p></li>
<li><p>Examining /proc’s structure</p></li>
<li><p>Uncovering various information about the kernel and the processes running
on the system</p></li>
</ul>
<hr class="docutils" />
<p>The proc file system acts as an interface to internal data structures in the
kernel. It can be used to obtain information about the system and to change
certain kernel parameters at runtime (sysctl).</p>
<p>First, we’ll take a look at the read-only parts of /proc. In Chapter 2, we
show you how you can use /proc/sys to change settings.</p>
</section>
<section id="process-specific-subdirectories">
<h3>1.1 Process-Specific Subdirectories<a class="headerlink" href="#process-specific-subdirectories" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>The directory /proc contains (among other things) one subdirectory for each
process running on the system, which is named after the process ID (PID).</p>
<p>The link ‘self’ points to the process reading the file system. Each process
subdirectory has the entries listed in Table 1-1.</p>
<p>A process can read its own information from /proc/PID/* with no extra
permissions. When reading /proc/PID/* information for other processes, reading
process is required to have either CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability with
PTRACE_MODE_READ access permissions, or, alternatively, CAP_PERFMON
capability. This applies to all read-only information like <cite>maps</cite>, <cite>environ</cite>,
<cite>pagemap</cite>, etc. The only exception is <cite>mem</cite> file due to its read-write nature,
which requires CAP_SYS_PTRACE capabilities with more elevated
PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH permissions; CAP_PERFMON capability does not grant access
to /proc/PID/mem for other processes.</p>
<p>Note that an open file descriptor to /proc/<pid> or to any of its
contained files or subdirectories does not prevent <pid> being reused
for some other process in the event that <pid> exits. Operations on
open /proc/<pid> file descriptors corresponding to dead processes
never act on any new process that the kernel may, through chance, have
also assigned the process ID <pid>. Instead, operations on these FDs
usually fail with ESRCH.</p>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id9">
<caption><span class="caption-text">Table 1-1: Process specific entries in /proc</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id9" title="Link to this table">¶</a></caption>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>File</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Content</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>clear_refs</p></td>
<td><p>Clears page referenced bits shown in smaps output</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>cmdline</p></td>
<td><p>Command line arguments</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>cpu</p></td>
<td><p>Current and last cpu in which it was executed (2.4)(smp)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>cwd</p></td>
<td><p>Link to the current working directory</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>environ</p></td>
<td><p>Values of environment variables</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>exe</p></td>
<td><p>Link to the executable of this process</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>fd</p></td>
<td><p>Directory, which contains all file descriptors</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>maps</p></td>
<td><p>Memory maps to executables and library files (2.4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>mem</p></td>
<td><p>Memory held by this process</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>root</p></td>
<td><p>Link to the root directory of this process</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>stat</p></td>
<td><p>Process status</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>statm</p></td>
<td><p>Process memory status information</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>status</p></td>
<td><p>Process status in human readable form</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>wchan</p></td>
<td><p>Present with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y: it shows the kernel function
symbol the task is blocked in - or “0” if not blocked.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>pagemap</p></td>
<td><p>Page table</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>stack</p></td>
<td><p>Report full stack trace, enable via CONFIG_STACKTRACE</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>smaps</p></td>
<td><p>An extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption of
each mapping and flags associated with it</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>smaps_rollup</p></td>
<td><p>Accumulated smaps stats for all mappings of the process. This
can be derived from smaps, but is faster and more convenient</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>numa_maps</p></td>
<td><p>An extension based on maps, showing the memory locality and
binding policy as well as mem usage (in pages) of each mapping.</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>For example, to get the status information of a process, all you have to do is
read the file /proc/PID/status:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>>cat /proc/self/status
Name: cat
State: R (running)
Tgid: 5452
Pid: 5452
PPid: 743
TracerPid: 0 (2.4)
Uid: 501 501 501 501
Gid: 100 100 100 100
FDSize: 256
Groups: 100 14 16
Kthread: 0
VmPeak: 5004 kB
VmSize: 5004 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmHWM: 476 kB
VmRSS: 476 kB
RssAnon: 352 kB
RssFile: 120 kB
RssShmem: 4 kB
VmData: 156 kB
VmStk: 88 kB
VmExe: 68 kB
VmLib: 1412 kB
VmPTE: 20 kb
VmSwap: 0 kB
HugetlbPages: 0 kB
CoreDumping: 0
THP_enabled: 1
Threads: 1
SigQ: 0/28578
SigPnd: 0000000000000000
ShdPnd: 0000000000000000
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000000000000
SigCgt: 0000000000000000
CapInh: 00000000fffffeff
CapPrm: 0000000000000000
CapEff: 0000000000000000
CapBnd: ffffffffffffffff
CapAmb: 0000000000000000
NoNewPrivs: 0
Seccomp: 0
Speculation_Store_Bypass: thread vulnerable
SpeculationIndirectBranch: conditional enabled
voluntary_ctxt_switches: 0
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 1
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This shows you nearly the same information you would get if you viewed it with
the ps command. In fact, ps uses the proc file system to obtain its
information. But you get a more detailed view of the process by reading the
file /proc/PID/status. It fields are described in table 1-2.</p>
<p>The statm file contains more detailed information about the process
memory usage. Its seven fields are explained in Table 1-3. The stat file
contains detailed information about the process itself. Its fields are
explained in Table 1-4.</p>
<p>(for SMP CONFIG users)</p>
<p>For making accounting scalable, RSS related information are handled in an
asynchronous manner and the value may not be very precise. To see a precise
snapshot of a moment, you can see /proc/<pid>/smaps file and scan page table.
It’s slow but very precise.</p>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id10">
<caption><span class="caption-text">Table 1-2: Contents of the status fields (as of 4.19)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id10" title="Link to this table">¶</a></caption>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Field</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Content</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Name</p></td>
<td><p>filename of the executable</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Umask</p></td>
<td><p>file mode creation mask</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>State</p></td>
<td><p>state (R is running, S is sleeping, D is sleeping
in an uninterruptible wait, Z is zombie,
T is traced or stopped)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Tgid</p></td>
<td><p>thread group ID</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Ngid</p></td>
<td><p>NUMA group ID (0 if none)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Pid</p></td>
<td><p>process id</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>PPid</p></td>
<td><p>process id of the parent process</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>TracerPid</p></td>
<td><p>PID of process tracing this process (0 if not, or
the tracer is outside of the current pid namespace)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Uid</p></td>
<td><p>Real, effective, saved set, and file system UIDs</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Gid</p></td>
<td><p>Real, effective, saved set, and file system GIDs</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>FDSize</p></td>
<td><p>number of file descriptor slots currently allocated</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Groups</p></td>
<td><p>supplementary group list</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>NStgid</p></td>
<td><p>descendant namespace thread group ID hierarchy</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>NSpid</p></td>
<td><p>descendant namespace process ID hierarchy</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>NSpgid</p></td>
<td><p>descendant namespace process group ID hierarchy</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>NSsid</p></td>
<td><p>descendant namespace session ID hierarchy</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Kthread</p></td>
<td><p>kernel thread flag, 1 is yes, 0 is no</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>VmPeak</p></td>
<td><p>peak virtual memory size</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>VmSize</p></td>
<td><p>total program size</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>VmLck</p></td>
<td><p>locked memory size</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>VmPin</p></td>
<td><p>pinned memory size</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>VmHWM</p></td>
<td><p>peak resident set size (“high water mark”)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>VmRSS</p></td>
<td><p>size of memory portions. It contains the three
following parts
(VmRSS = RssAnon + RssFile + RssShmem)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>RssAnon</p></td>
<td><p>size of resident anonymous memory</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>RssFile</p></td>
<td><p>size of resident file mappings</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>RssShmem</p></td>
<td><p>size of resident shmem memory (includes SysV shm,
mapping of tmpfs and shared anonymous mappings)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>VmData</p></td>
<td><p>size of private data segments</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>VmStk</p></td>
<td><p>size of stack segments</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>VmExe</p></td>
<td><p>size of text segment</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>VmLib</p></td>
<td><p>size of shared library code</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>VmPTE</p></td>
<td><p>size of page table entries</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>VmSwap</p></td>
<td><p>amount of swap used by anonymous private data
(shmem swap usage is not included)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>HugetlbPages</p></td>
<td><p>size of hugetlb memory portions</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>CoreDumping</p></td>
<td><p>process’s memory is currently being dumped
(killing the process may lead to a corrupted core)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>THP_enabled</p></td>
<td><p>process is allowed to use THP (returns 0 when
PR_SET_THP_DISABLE is set on the process to disable
THP completely, not just partially)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Threads</p></td>
<td><p>number of threads</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>SigQ</p></td>
<td><p>number of signals queued/max. number for queue</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>SigPnd</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of pending signals for the thread</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>ShdPnd</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of shared pending signals for the process</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>SigBlk</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of blocked signals</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>SigIgn</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of ignored signals</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>SigCgt</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of caught signals</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>CapInh</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of inheritable capabilities</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>CapPrm</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of permitted capabilities</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>CapEff</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of effective capabilities</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>CapBnd</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of capabilities bounding set</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>CapAmb</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of ambient capabilities</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>NoNewPrivs</p></td>
<td><p>no_new_privs, like prctl(PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIV, ...)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Seccomp</p></td>
<td><p>seccomp mode, like prctl(PR_GET_SECCOMP, ...)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Speculation_Store_Bypass</p></td>
<td><p>speculative store bypass mitigation status</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>SpeculationIndirectBranch</p></td>
<td><p>indirect branch speculation mode</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Cpus_allowed</p></td>
<td><p>mask of CPUs on which this process may run</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Cpus_allowed_list</p></td>
<td><p>Same as previous, but in “list format”</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Mems_allowed</p></td>
<td><p>mask of memory nodes allowed to this process</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Mems_allowed_list</p></td>
<td><p>Same as previous, but in “list format”</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>voluntary_ctxt_switches</p></td>
<td><p>number of voluntary context switches</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches</p></td>
<td><p>number of non voluntary context switches</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id11">
<caption><span class="caption-text">Table 1-3: Contents of the statm fields (as of 2.6.8-rc3)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id11" title="Link to this table">¶</a></caption>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Field</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Content</p></th>
<th class="head"></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>size</p></td>
<td><p>total program size (pages)</p></td>
<td><p>(same as VmSize in status)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>resident</p></td>
<td><p>size of memory portions (pages)</p></td>
<td><p>(same as VmRSS in status)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>shared</p></td>
<td><p>number of pages that are shared</p></td>
<td><p>(i.e. backed by a file, same
as RssFile+RssShmem in status)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>trs</p></td>
<td><p>number of pages that are ‘code’</p></td>
<td><p>(not including libs; broken,
includes data segment)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>lrs</p></td>
<td><p>number of pages of library</p></td>
<td><p>(always 0 on 2.6)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>drs</p></td>
<td><p>number of pages of data/stack</p></td>
<td><p>(including libs; broken,
includes library text)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>dt</p></td>
<td><p>number of dirty pages</p></td>
<td><p>(always 0 on 2.6)</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id12">
<caption><span class="caption-text">Table 1-4: Contents of the stat fields (as of 2.6.30-rc7)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id12" title="Link to this table">¶</a></caption>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Field</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Content</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>pid</p></td>
<td><p>process id</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>tcomm</p></td>
<td><p>filename of the executable</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>state</p></td>
<td><p>state (R is running, S is sleeping, D is sleeping in an
uninterruptible wait, Z is zombie, T is traced or stopped)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ppid</p></td>
<td><p>process id of the parent process</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>pgrp</p></td>
<td><p>pgrp of the process</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>sid</p></td>
<td><p>session id</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>tty_nr</p></td>
<td><p>tty the process uses</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>tty_pgrp</p></td>
<td><p>pgrp of the tty</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>flags</p></td>
<td><p>task flags</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>min_flt</p></td>
<td><p>number of minor faults</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>cmin_flt</p></td>
<td><p>number of minor faults with child’s</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>maj_flt</p></td>
<td><p>number of major faults</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>cmaj_flt</p></td>
<td><p>number of major faults with child’s</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>utime</p></td>
<td><p>user mode jiffies</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>stime</p></td>
<td><p>kernel mode jiffies</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>cutime</p></td>
<td><p>user mode jiffies with child’s</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>cstime</p></td>
<td><p>kernel mode jiffies with child’s</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>priority</p></td>
<td><p>priority level</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>nice</p></td>
<td><p>nice level</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>num_threads</p></td>
<td><p>number of threads</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>it_real_value</p></td>
<td><p>(obsolete, always 0)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>start_time</p></td>
<td><p>time the process started after system boot</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>vsize</p></td>
<td><p>virtual memory size</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>rss</p></td>
<td><p>resident set memory size</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>rsslim</p></td>
<td><p>current limit in bytes on the rss</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>start_code</p></td>
<td><p>address above which program text can run</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>end_code</p></td>
<td><p>address below which program text can run</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>start_stack</p></td>
<td><p>address of the start of the main process stack</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>esp</p></td>
<td><p>current value of ESP</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>eip</p></td>
<td><p>current value of EIP</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>pending</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of pending signals</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>blocked</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of blocked signals</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>sigign</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of ignored signals</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>sigcatch</p></td>
<td><p>bitmap of caught signals</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>0</p></td>
<td><p>(place holder, used to be the wchan address,
use /proc/PID/wchan instead)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>0</p></td>
<td><p>(place holder)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>0</p></td>
<td><p>(place holder)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>exit_signal</p></td>
<td><p>signal to send to parent thread on exit</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>task_cpu</p></td>
<td><p>which CPU the task is scheduled on</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>rt_priority</p></td>
<td><p>realtime priority</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>policy</p></td>
<td><p>scheduling policy (man sched_setscheduler)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>blkio_ticks</p></td>
<td><p>time spent waiting for block IO</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>gtime</p></td>
<td><p>guest time of the task in jiffies</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>cgtime</p></td>
<td><p>guest time of the task children in jiffies</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>start_data</p></td>
<td><p>address above which program data+bss is placed</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>end_data</p></td>
<td><p>address below which program data+bss is placed</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>start_brk</p></td>
<td><p>address above which program heap can be expanded with <code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">brk()</span></code></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>arg_start</p></td>
<td><p>address above which program command line is placed</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>arg_end</p></td>
<td><p>address below which program command line is placed</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>env_start</p></td>
<td><p>address above which program environment is placed</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>env_end</p></td>
<td><p>address below which program environment is placed</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>exit_code</p></td>
<td><p>the thread’s exit_code in the form reported by the waitpid
system call</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The /proc/PID/maps file contains the currently mapped memory regions and
their access permissions.</p>
<p>The format is:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>address perms offset dev inode pathname
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/test
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/test
0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6
a8008000-a800a000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6
a800a000-a800b000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6
a800b000-a800e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a800e000-a8022000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8022000-a8023000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8023000-a8024000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8024000-a8027000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a8027000-a8043000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a8043000-a8044000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a8044000-a8045000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
aff35000-aff4a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where “address” is the address space in the process that it occupies, “perms”
is a set of permissions:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>r = read
w = write
x = execute
s = shared
p = private (copy on write)
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>“offset” is the offset into the mapping, “dev” is the device (major:minor), and
“inode” is the inode on that device. 0 indicates that no inode is associated
with the memory region, as the case would be with BSS (uninitialized data).
The “pathname” shows the name associated file for this mapping. If the mapping
is not associated with a file:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><table class="docutils align-default">
<tbody>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>[heap]</p></td>
<td><p>the heap of the program</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>[stack]</p></td>
<td><p>the stack of the main process</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>[vdso]</p></td>
<td><p>the “virtual dynamic shared object”,
the kernel system call handler</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>[anon:<name>]</p></td>
<td><p>a private anonymous mapping that has been
named by userspace</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>[anon_shmem:<name>]</p></td>
<td><p>an anonymous shared memory mapping that has
been named by userspace</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>or if empty, the mapping is anonymous.</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>Starting with 6.11 kernel, /proc/PID/maps provides an alternative
ioctl()-based API that gives ability to flexibly and efficiently query and
filter individual VMAs. This interface is binary and is meant for more
efficient and easy programmatic use. <cite><code class="xref c c-struct broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">struct</span> <span class="pre">procmap_query</span></code></cite>, defined in
linux/fs.h UAPI header, serves as an input/output argument to the
<cite>PROCMAP_QUERY</cite> ioctl() command. See comments in linus/fs.h UAPI header for
details on query semantics, supported flags, data returned, and general API
usage information.</p>
<p>The /proc/PID/smaps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory
consumption for each of the process’s mappings. For each mapping (aka Virtual
Memory Area, or VMA) there is a series of lines such as the following:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>08048000-080bc000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 13130 /bin/bash
Size: 1084 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
Rss: 892 kB
Pss: 374 kB
Pss_Dirty: 0 kB
Shared_Clean: 892 kB
Shared_Dirty: 0 kB
Private_Clean: 0 kB
Private_Dirty: 0 kB
Referenced: 892 kB
Anonymous: 0 kB
KSM: 0 kB
LazyFree: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB
Shared_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Private_Hugetlb: 0 kB
Swap: 0 kB
SwapPss: 0 kB
KernelPageSize: 4 kB
MMUPageSize: 4 kB
Locked: 0 kB
THPeligible: 0
VmFlags: rd ex mr mw me dw
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for
the mapping in /proc/PID/maps. Following lines show the size of the
mapping (size); the size of each page allocated when backing a VMA
(KernelPageSize), which is usually the same as the size in the page table
entries; the page size used by the MMU when backing a VMA (in most cases,
the same as KernelPageSize); the amount of the mapping that is currently
resident in RAM (RSS); the process’s proportional share of this mapping
(PSS); and the number of clean and dirty shared and private pages in the
mapping.</p>
<p>The “proportional set size” (PSS) of a process is the count of pages it has
in memory, where each page is divided by the number of processes sharing it.
So if a process has 1000 pages all to itself, and 1000 shared with one other
process, its PSS will be 1500. “Pss_Dirty” is the portion of PSS which
consists of dirty pages. (“Pss_Clean” is not included, but it can be
calculated by subtracting “Pss_Dirty” from “Pss”.)</p>
<p>Traditionally, a page is accounted as “private” if it is mapped exactly once,
and a page is accounted as “shared” when mapped multiple times, even when
mapped in the same process multiple times. Note that this accounting is
independent of MAP_SHARED.</p>
<p>In some kernel configurations, the semantics of pages part of a larger
allocation (e.g., THP) can differ: a page is accounted as “private” if all
pages part of the corresponding large allocation are <em>certainly</em> mapped in the
same process, even if the page is mapped multiple times in that process. A
page is accounted as “shared” if any page page of the larger allocation
is <em>maybe</em> mapped in a different process. In some cases, a large allocation
might be treated as “maybe mapped by multiple processes” even though this
is no longer the case.</p>
<p>Some kernel configurations do not track the precise number of times a page part
of a larger allocation is mapped. In this case, when calculating the PSS, the
average number of mappings per page in this larger allocation might be used
as an approximation for the number of mappings of a page. The PSS calculation
will be imprecise in this case.</p>
<p>“Referenced” indicates the amount of memory currently marked as referenced or
accessed.</p>
<p>“Anonymous” shows the amount of memory that does not belong to any file. Even
a mapping associated with a file may contain anonymous pages: when MAP_PRIVATE
and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy.</p>
<p>“KSM” reports how many of the pages are KSM pages. Note that KSM-placed zeropages
are not included, only actual KSM pages.</p>
<p>“LazyFree” shows the amount of memory which is marked by madvise(MADV_FREE).
The memory isn’t freed immediately with <code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">madvise()</span></code>. It’s freed in memory
pressure if the memory is clean. Please note that the printed value might
be lower than the real value due to optimizations used in the current
implementation. If this is not desirable please file a bug report.</p>
<p>“AnonHugePages” shows the amount of memory backed by transparent hugepage.</p>
<p>“ShmemPmdMapped” shows the amount of shared (shmem/tmpfs) memory backed by
huge pages.</p>
<p>“Shared_Hugetlb” and “Private_Hugetlb” show the amounts of memory backed by
hugetlbfs page which is <em>not</em> counted in “RSS” or “PSS” field for historical
reasons. And these are not included in {Shared,Private}_{Clean,Dirty} field.</p>
<p>“Swap” shows how much would-be-anonymous memory is also used, but out on swap.</p>
<p>For shmem mappings, “Swap” includes also the size of the mapped (and not
replaced by copy-on-write) part of the underlying shmem object out on swap.
“SwapPss” shows proportional swap share of this mapping. Unlike “Swap”, this
does not take into account swapped out page of underlying shmem objects.
“Locked” indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not.</p>
<p>“THPeligible” indicates whether the mapping is eligible for allocating
naturally aligned THP pages of any currently enabled size. 1 if true, 0
otherwise.</p>
<p>“VmFlags” field deserves a separate description. This member represents the
kernel flags associated with the particular virtual memory area in two letter
encoded manner. The codes are the following:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><table class="docutils align-default">
<tbody>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>rd</p></td>
<td><p>readable</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>wr</p></td>
<td><p>writeable</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ex</p></td>
<td><p>executable</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>sh</p></td>
<td><p>shared</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>mr</p></td>
<td><p>may read</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>mw</p></td>
<td><p>may write</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>me</p></td>
<td><p>may execute</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>ms</p></td>
<td><p>may share</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>gd</p></td>
<td><p>stack segment growns down</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>pf</p></td>
<td><p>pure PFN range</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>lo</p></td>
<td><p>pages are locked in memory</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>io</p></td>
<td><p>memory mapped I/O area</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>sr</p></td>
<td><p>sequential read advise provided</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>rr</p></td>
<td><p>random read advise provided</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>dc</p></td>
<td><p>do not copy area on fork</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>de</p></td>
<td><p>do not expand area on remapping</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ac</p></td>
<td><p>area is accountable</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>nr</p></td>
<td><p>swap space is not reserved for the area</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ht</p></td>
<td><p>area uses huge tlb pages</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>sf</p></td>
<td><p>synchronous page fault</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ar</p></td>
<td><p>architecture specific flag</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>wf</p></td>
<td><p>wipe on fork</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>dd</p></td>
<td><p>do not include area into core dump</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>sd</p></td>
<td><p>soft dirty flag</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>mm</p></td>
<td><p>mixed map area</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>hg</p></td>
<td><p>huge page advise flag</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>nh</p></td>
<td><p>no huge page advise flag</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>mg</p></td>
<td><p>mergeable advise flag</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>bt</p></td>
<td><p>arm64 BTI guarded page</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>mt</p></td>
<td><p>arm64 MTE allocation tags are enabled</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>um</p></td>
<td><p>userfaultfd missing tracking</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>uw</p></td>
<td><p>userfaultfd wr-protect tracking</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ui</p></td>
<td><p>userfaultfd minor fault</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>ss</p></td>
<td><p>shadow/guarded control stack page</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>sl</p></td>
<td><p>sealed</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>lf</p></td>
<td><p>lock on fault pages</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>dp</p></td>
<td><p>always lazily freeable mapping</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>gu</p></td>
<td><p>maybe contains guard regions (if not set, definitely doesn’t)</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div></blockquote>
<p>Note that there is no guarantee that every flag and associated mnemonic will
be present in all further kernel releases. Things get changed, the flags may
be vanished or the reverse -- new added. Interpretation of their meaning
might change in future as well. So each consumer of these flags has to
follow each specific kernel version for the exact semantic.</p>
<p>This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is
enabled.</p>
<p>Note: reading /proc/PID/maps or /proc/PID/smaps is inherently racy (consistent
output can be achieved only in the single read call).</p>
<p>This typically manifests when doing partial reads of these files while the
memory map is being modified. Despite the races, we do provide the following
guarantees:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p>The mapped addresses never go backwards, which implies no two
regions will ever overlap.</p></li>
<li><p>If there is something at a given vaddr during the entirety of the
life of the smaps/maps walk, there will be some output for it.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>The /proc/PID/smaps_rollup file includes the same fields as /proc/PID/smaps,
but their values are the sums of the corresponding values for all mappings of
the process. Additionally, it contains these fields:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Pss_Anon</p></li>
<li><p>Pss_File</p></li>
<li><p>Pss_Shmem</p></li>
</ul>
<p>They represent the proportional shares of anonymous, file, and shmem pages, as
described for smaps above. These fields are omitted in smaps since each
mapping identifies the type (anon, file, or shmem) of all pages it contains.
Thus all information in smaps_rollup can be derived from smaps, but at a
significantly higher cost.</p>
<p>The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG
bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the
soft-dirty bit on pte (see <a class="reference internal" href="../admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.html"><span class="doc">Soft-Dirty PTEs</span></a>
for details).
To clear the bits for all the pages associated with the process:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>To clear the bits for the anonymous pages associated with the process:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> echo 2 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>To clear the soft-dirty bit:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>To reset the peak resident set size (“high water mark”) to the process’s
current value:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> echo 5 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect.</p>
<p>The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags
using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using
/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see
<a class="reference internal" href="../admin-guide/mm/pagemap.html"><span class="doc">Examining Process Page Tables</span></a>.</p>
<p>The /proc/pid/numa_maps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory
locality and binding policy, as well as the memory usage (in pages) of
each mapping. The output follows a general format where mapping details get
summarized separated by blank spaces, one mapping per each file line:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>address policy mapping details
00400000 default file=/usr/local/bin/app mapped=1 active=0 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4
00600000 default file=/usr/local/bin/app anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4
3206000000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.12.so mapped=26 mapmax=6 N0=24 N3=2 kernelpagesize_kB=4
320621f000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.12.so anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4
3206220000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.12.so anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4
3206221000 default anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4
3206800000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so mapped=59 mapmax=21 active=55 N0=41 N3=18 kernelpagesize_kB=4
320698b000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so
3206b8a000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so anon=2 dirty=2 N3=2 kernelpagesize_kB=4
3206b8e000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.12.so anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4
3206b8f000 default anon=3 dirty=3 active=1 N3=3 kernelpagesize_kB=4
7f4dc10a2000 default anon=3 dirty=3 N3=3 kernelpagesize_kB=4
7f4dc10b4000 default anon=2 dirty=2 active=1 N3=2 kernelpagesize_kB=4
7f4dc1200000 default file=/anon_hugepage\040(deleted) huge anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=2048
7fff335f0000 default stack anon=3 dirty=3 N3=3 kernelpagesize_kB=4
7fff3369d000 default mapped=1 mapmax=35 active=0 N3=1 kernelpagesize_kB=4
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Where:</p>
<p>“address” is the starting address for the mapping;</p>
<p>“policy” reports the NUMA memory policy set for the mapping (see <a class="reference internal" href="../admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.html"><span class="doc">NUMA Memory Policy</span></a>);</p>
<p>“mapping details” summarizes mapping data such as mapping type, page usage counters,
node locality page counters (N0 == node0, N1 == node1, ...) and the kernel page
size, in KB, that is backing the mapping up.</p>
<p>Note that some kernel configurations do not track the precise number of times
a page part of a larger allocation (e.g., THP) is mapped. In these
configurations, “mapmax” might corresponds to the average number of mappings
per page in such a larger allocation instead.</p>
</section>
<section id="kernel-data">
<h3>1.2 Kernel data<a class="headerlink" href="#kernel-data" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Similar to the process entries, the kernel data files give information about
the running kernel. The files used to obtain this information are contained in
/proc and are listed in Table 1-5. Not all of these will be present in your
system. It depends on the kernel configuration and the loaded modules, which
files are there, and which are missing.</p>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id13">
<caption><span class="caption-text">Table 1-5: Kernel info in /proc</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id13" title="Link to this table">¶</a></caption>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>File</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Content</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>allocinfo</p></td>
<td><p>Memory allocations profiling information</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>apm</p></td>
<td><p>Advanced power management info</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>bootconfig</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel command line obtained from boot config,
and, if there were kernel parameters from the
boot loader, a “# Parameters from bootloader:”
line followed by a line containing those
parameters prefixed by “# “. (5.5)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>buddyinfo</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel memory allocator information (see text) (2.5)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>bus</p></td>
<td><p>Directory containing bus specific information</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>cmdline</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel command line, both from bootloader and embedded
in the kernel image</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>cpuinfo</p></td>
<td><p>Info about the CPU</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>devices</p></td>
<td><p>Available devices (block and character)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>dma</p></td>
<td><p>Used DMS channels</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>filesystems</p></td>
<td><p>Supported filesystems</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>driver</p></td>
<td><p>Various drivers grouped here, currently rtc (2.4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>execdomains</p></td>
<td><p>Execdomains, related to security (2.4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>fb</p></td>
<td><p>Frame Buffer devices (2.4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>fs</p></td>
<td><p>File system parameters, currently nfs/exports (2.4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>ide</p></td>
<td><p>Directory containing info about the IDE subsystem</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>interrupts</p></td>
<td><p>Interrupt usage</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>iomem</p></td>
<td><p>Memory map (2.4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ioports</p></td>
<td><p>I/O port usage</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>irq</p></td>
<td><p>Masks for irq to cpu affinity (2.4)(smp?)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>isapnp</p></td>
<td><p>ISA PnP (Plug&Play) Info (2.4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>kcore</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel core image (can be ELF or A.OUT(deprecated in 2.4))</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>kmsg</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel messages</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>ksyms</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel symbol table</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>loadavg</p></td>
<td><dl class="simple">
<dt>Load average of last 1, 5 & 15 minutes;</dt><dd><p>number of processes currently runnable (running or on ready queue);
total number of processes in system;
last pid created.
All fields are separated by one space except “number of
processes currently runnable” and “total number of processes
in system”, which are separated by a slash (‘/’). Example:
0.61 0.61 0.55 3/828 22084</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>locks</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel locks</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>meminfo</p></td>
<td><p>Memory info</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>misc</p></td>
<td><p>Miscellaneous</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>modules</p></td>
<td><p>List of loaded modules</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>mounts</p></td>
<td><p>Mounted filesystems</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>net</p></td>
<td><p>Networking info (see text)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>pagetypeinfo</p></td>
<td><p>Additional page allocator information (see text) (2.5)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>partitions</p></td>
<td><p>Table of partitions known to the system</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>pci</p></td>
<td><p>Deprecated info of PCI bus (new way -> /proc/bus/pci/,
decoupled by lspci (2.4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>rtc</p></td>
<td><p>Real time clock</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>scsi</p></td>
<td><p>SCSI info (see text)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>slabinfo</p></td>
<td><p>Slab pool info</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>softirqs</p></td>
<td><p>softirq usage</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>stat</p></td>
<td><p>Overall statistics</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>swaps</p></td>
<td><p>Swap space utilization</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>sys</p></td>
<td><p>See chapter 2</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>sysvipc</p></td>
<td><p>Info of SysVIPC Resources (msg, sem, shm) (2.4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>tty</p></td>
<td><p>Info of tty drivers</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>uptime</p></td>
<td><p>Wall clock since boot, combined idle time of all cpus</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>version</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel version</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>video</p></td>
<td><p>bttv info of video resources (2.4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>vmallocinfo</p></td>
<td><p>Show vmalloced areas</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>You can, for example, check which interrupts are currently in use and what
they are used for by looking in the file /proc/interrupts:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 8728810 XT-PIC timer
1: 895 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 531695 XT-PIC aha152x
4: 2014133 XT-PIC serial
5: 44401 XT-PIC pcnet_cs
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
11: 8 XT-PIC i82365
12: 182918 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 1232265 XT-PIC ide0
15: 7 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>In 2.4.* a couple of lines where added to this file LOC & ERR (this time is the
output of a SMP machine):</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 1243498 1214548 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 8949 8958 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 11286 10161 IO-APIC-edge soundblaster
8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 27422 27407 IO-APIC-edge 3c503
12: 113645 113873 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
13: 0 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 22491 24012 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 2183 2415 IO-APIC-edge ide1
17: 30564 30414 IO-APIC-level eth0
18: 177 164 IO-APIC-level bttv
NMI: 2457961 2457959
LOC: 2457882 2457881
ERR: 2155
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>NMI is incremented in this case because every timer interrupt generates a NMI
(Non Maskable Interrupt) which is used by the NMI Watchdog to detect lockups.</p>
<p>LOC is the local interrupt counter of the internal APIC of every CPU.</p>
<p>ERR is incremented in the case of errors in the IO-APIC bus (the bus that
connects the CPUs in a SMP system. This means that an error has been detected,
the IO-APIC automatically retry the transmission, so it should not be a big
problem, but you should read the SMP-FAQ.</p>
<p>In 2.6.2* /proc/interrupts was expanded again. This time the goal was for
/proc/interrupts to display every IRQ vector in use by the system, not
just those considered ‘most important’. The new vectors are:</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt>THR</dt><dd><p>interrupt raised when a machine check threshold counter
(typically counting ECC corrected errors of memory or cache) exceeds
a configurable threshold. Only available on some systems.</p>
</dd>
<dt>TRM</dt><dd><p>a thermal event interrupt occurs when a temperature threshold
has been exceeded for the CPU. This interrupt may also be generated
when the temperature drops back to normal.</p>
</dd>
<dt>SPU</dt><dd><p>a spurious interrupt is some interrupt that was raised then lowered
by some IO device before it could be fully processed by the APIC. Hence
the APIC sees the interrupt but does not know what device it came from.
For this case the APIC will generate the interrupt with a IRQ vector
of 0xff. This might also be generated by chipset bugs.</p>
</dd>
<dt>RES, CAL, TLB</dt><dd><p>rescheduling, call and TLB flush interrupts are
sent from one CPU to another per the needs of the OS. Typically,
their statistics are used by kernel developers and interested users to
determine the occurrence of interrupts of the given type.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>The above IRQ vectors are displayed only when relevant. For example,
the threshold vector does not exist on x86_64 platforms. Others are
suppressed when the system is a uniprocessor. As of this writing, only
i386 and x86_64 platforms support the new IRQ vector displays.</p>
<p>Of some interest is the introduction of the /proc/irq directory to 2.4.
It could be used to set IRQ to CPU affinity. This means that you can “hook” an
IRQ to only one CPU, or to exclude a CPU of handling IRQs. The contents of the
irq subdir is one subdir for each IRQ, and two files; default_smp_affinity and
prof_cpu_mask.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> ls /proc/irq/
0 10 12 14 16 18 2 4 6 8 prof_cpu_mask
1 11 13 15 17 19 3 5 7 9 default_smp_affinity
> ls /proc/irq/0/
smp_affinity
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>smp_affinity is a bitmask, in which you can specify which CPUs can handle the
IRQ. You can set it by doing:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> echo 1 > /proc/irq/10/smp_affinity
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This means that only the first CPU will handle the IRQ, but you can also echo
5 which means that only the first and third CPU can handle the IRQ.</p>
<p>The contents of each smp_affinity file is the same by default:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity
ffffffff
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>There is an alternate interface, smp_affinity_list which allows specifying
a CPU range instead of a bitmask:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/irq/0/smp_affinity_list
1024-1031
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The default_smp_affinity mask applies to all non-active IRQs, which are the
IRQs which have not yet been allocated/activated, and hence which lack a
/proc/irq/[0-9]* directory.</p>
<p>The node file on an SMP system shows the node to which the device using the IRQ
reports itself as being attached. This hardware locality information does not
include information about any possible driver locality preference.</p>
<p>prof_cpu_mask specifies which CPUs are to be profiled by the system wide
profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all CPUs if there are only 32 of them).</p>
<p>The way IRQs are routed is handled by the IO-APIC, and it’s Round Robin
between all the CPUs which are allowed to handle it. As usual the kernel has
more info than you and does a better job than you, so the defaults are the
best choice for almost everyone. [Note this applies only to those IO-APIC’s
that support “Round Robin” interrupt distribution.]</p>
<p>There are three more important subdirectories in /proc: net, scsi, and sys.
The general rule is that the contents, or even the existence of these
directories, depend on your kernel configuration. If SCSI is not enabled, the
directory scsi may not exist. The same is true with the net, which is there
only when networking support is present in the running kernel.</p>
<p>The slabinfo file gives information about memory usage at the slab level.
Linux uses slab pools for memory management above page level in version 2.2.
Commonly used objects have their own slab pool (such as network buffers,
directory cache, and so on).</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/buddyinfo
Node 0, zone DMA 0 4 5 4 4 3 ...
Node 0, zone Normal 1 0 0 1 101 8 ...
Node 0, zone HighMem 2 0 0 1 1 0 ...
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>External fragmentation is a problem under some workloads, and buddyinfo is a
useful tool for helping diagnose these problems. Buddyinfo will give you a
clue as to how big an area you can safely allocate, or why a previous
allocation failed.</p>
<p>Each column represents the number of pages of a certain order which are
available. In this case, there are 0 chunks of 2^0*PAGE_SIZE available in
ZONE_DMA, 4 chunks of 2^1*PAGE_SIZE in ZONE_DMA, 101 chunks of 2^4*PAGE_SIZE
available in ZONE_NORMAL, etc...</p>
<p>More information relevant to external fragmentation can be found in
pagetypeinfo:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/pagetypeinfo
Page block order: 9
Pages per block: 512
Free pages count per migrate type at order 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Node 0, zone DMA, type Unmovable 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
Node 0, zone DMA, type Reclaimable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Node 0, zone DMA, type Movable 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 2
Node 0, zone DMA, type Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Node 0, zone DMA, type Isolate 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Node 0, zone DMA32, type Unmovable 103 54 77 1 1 1 11 8 7 1 9
Node 0, zone DMA32, type Reclaimable 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Node 0, zone DMA32, type Movable 169 152 113 91 77 54 39 13 6 1 452
Node 0, zone DMA32, type Reserve 1 2 2 2 2 0 1 1 1 1 0
Node 0, zone DMA32, type Isolate 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Number of blocks type Unmovable Reclaimable Movable Reserve Isolate
Node 0, zone DMA 2 0 5 1 0
Node 0, zone DMA32 41 6 967 2 0
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Fragmentation avoidance in the kernel works by grouping pages of different
migrate types into the same contiguous regions of memory called page blocks.
A page block is typically the size of the default hugepage size, e.g. 2MB on
X86-64. By keeping pages grouped based on their ability to move, the kernel
can reclaim pages within a page block to satisfy a high-order allocation.</p>
<p>The pagetypinfo begins with information on the size of a page block. It
then gives the same type of information as buddyinfo except broken down
by migrate-type and finishes with details on how many page blocks of each
type exist.</p>
<p>If min_free_kbytes has been tuned correctly (recommendations made by hugeadm
from libhugetlbfs <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/">https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/</a>), one can
make an estimate of the likely number of huge pages that can be allocated
at a given point in time. All the “Movable” blocks should be allocatable
unless memory has been <code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mlock()</span></code>’d. Some of the Reclaimable blocks should
also be allocatable although a lot of filesystem metadata may have to be
reclaimed to achieve this.</p>
<section id="allocinfo">
<h4>allocinfo<a class="headerlink" href="#allocinfo" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Provides information about memory allocations at all locations in the code
base. Each allocation in the code is identified by its source file, line
number, module (if originates from a loadable module) and the function calling
the allocation. The number of bytes allocated and number of calls at each
location are reported. The first line indicates the version of the file, the
second line is the header listing fields in the file.
If file version is 2.0 or higher then each line may contain additional
<key>:<value> pairs representing extra information about the call site.
For example if the counters are not accurate, the line will be appended with
“accurate:no” pair.</p>
<p>Supported markers in v2:
accurate:no</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Absolute values of the counters in this line are not accurate
because of the failure to allocate memory to track some of the
allocations made at this location. Deltas in these counters are
accurate, therefore counters can be used to track allocation size
and count changes.</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>Example output.</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span> > tail -n +3 /proc/allocinfo | sort -rn
127664128 31168 mm/page_ext.c:270 func:alloc_page_ext
56373248 4737 mm/slub.c:2259 func:alloc_slab_page
14880768 3633 mm/readahead.c:247 func:page_cache_ra_unbounded
14417920 3520 mm/mm_init.c:2530 func:alloc_large_system_hash
13377536 234 block/blk-mq.c:3421 func:blk_mq_alloc_rqs
11718656 2861 mm/filemap.c:1919 func:__filemap_get_folio
9192960 2800 kernel/fork.c:307 func:alloc_thread_stack_node
4206592 4 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2567 func:nf_ct_alloc_hashtable
4136960 1010 drivers/staging/ctagmod/ctagmod.c:20 [ctagmod] func:ctagmod_start
3940352 962 mm/memory.c:4214 func:alloc_anon_folio
2894464 22613 fs/kernfs/dir.c:615 func:__kernfs_new_node
...
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="meminfo">
<h4>meminfo<a class="headerlink" href="#meminfo" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Provides information about distribution and utilization of memory. This
varies by architecture and compile options. Some of the counters reported
here overlap. The memory reported by the non overlapping counters may not
add up to the overall memory usage and the difference for some workloads
can be substantial. In many cases there are other means to find out
additional memory using subsystem specific interfaces, for instance
/proc/net/sockstat for TCP memory allocations.</p>
<p>Example output. You may not have all of these fields.</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 32858820 kB
MemFree: 21001236 kB
MemAvailable: 27214312 kB
Buffers: 581092 kB
Cached: 5587612 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 3237152 kB
Inactive: 7586256 kB
Active(anon): 94064 kB
Inactive(anon): 4570616 kB
Active(file): 3143088 kB
Inactive(file): 3015640 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Zswap: 1904 kB
Zswapped: 7792 kB
Dirty: 12 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 4654780 kB
Mapped: 266244 kB
Shmem: 9976 kB
KReclaimable: 517708 kB
Slab: 660044 kB
SReclaimable: 517708 kB
SUnreclaim: 142336 kB
KernelStack: 11168 kB
PageTables: 20540 kB
SecPageTables: 0 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 16429408 kB
Committed_AS: 7715148 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 40444 kB
VmallocChunk: 0 kB
Percpu: 29312 kB
EarlyMemtestBad: 0 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 4149248 kB
ShmemHugePages: 0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB
FileHugePages: 0 kB
FilePmdMapped: 0 kB
CmaTotal: 0 kB
CmaFree: 0 kB
Unaccepted: 0 kB
Balloon: 0 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
Hugetlb: 0 kB
DirectMap4k: 401152 kB
DirectMap2M: 10008576 kB
DirectMap1G: 24117248 kB
</pre></div>
</div>
<dl>
<dt>MemTotal</dt><dd><p>Total usable RAM (i.e. physical RAM minus a few reserved
bits and the kernel binary code)</p>
</dd>
<dt>MemFree</dt><dd><p>Total free RAM. On highmem systems, the sum of LowFree+HighFree</p>
</dd>
<dt>MemAvailable</dt><dd><p>An estimate of how much memory is available for starting new
applications, without swapping. Calculated from MemFree,
SReclaimable, the size of the file LRU lists, and the low
watermarks in each zone.
The estimate takes into account that the system needs some
page cache to function well, and that not all reclaimable
slab will be reclaimable, due to items being in use. The
impact of those factors will vary from system to system.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Buffers</dt><dd><p>Relatively temporary storage for raw disk blocks
shouldn’t get tremendously large (20MB or so)</p>
</dd>
<dt>Cached</dt><dd><p>In-memory cache for files read from the disk (the
pagecache) as well as tmpfs & shmem.
Doesn’t include SwapCached.</p>
</dd>
<dt>SwapCached</dt><dd><p>Memory that once was swapped out, is swapped back in but
still also is in the swapfile (if memory is needed it
doesn’t need to be swapped out AGAIN because it is already
in the swapfile. This saves I/O)</p>
</dd>
<dt>Active</dt><dd><p>Memory that has been used more recently and usually not
reclaimed unless absolutely necessary.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Inactive</dt><dd><p>Memory which has been less recently used. It is more
eligible to be reclaimed for other purposes</p>
</dd>
<dt>Unevictable</dt><dd><p>Memory allocated for userspace which cannot be reclaimed, such
as mlocked pages, ramfs backing pages, secret memfd pages etc.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Mlocked</dt><dd><p>Memory locked with <code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mlock()</span></code>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>HighTotal, HighFree</dt><dd><p>Highmem is all memory above ~860MB of physical memory.
Highmem areas are for use by userspace programs, or
for the pagecache. The kernel must use tricks to access
this memory, making it slower to access than lowmem.</p>
</dd>
<dt>LowTotal, LowFree</dt><dd><p>Lowmem is memory which can be used for everything that
highmem can be used for, but it is also available for the
kernel’s use for its own data structures. Among many
other things, it is where everything from the Slab is
allocated. Bad things happen when you’re out of lowmem.</p>
</dd>
<dt>SwapTotal</dt><dd><p>total amount of swap space available</p>
</dd>
<dt>SwapFree</dt><dd><p>Memory which has been evicted from RAM, and is temporarily
on the disk</p>
</dd>
<dt>Zswap</dt><dd><p>Memory consumed by the zswap backend (compressed size)</p>
</dd>
<dt>Zswapped</dt><dd><p>Amount of anonymous memory stored in zswap (original size)</p>
</dd>
<dt>Dirty</dt><dd><p>Memory which is waiting to get written back to the disk</p>
</dd>
<dt>Writeback</dt><dd><p>Memory which is actively being written back to the disk</p>
</dd>
<dt>AnonPages</dt><dd><p>Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables. Note that
some kernel configurations might consider all pages part of a
larger allocation (e.g., THP) as “mapped”, as soon as a single
page is mapped.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Mapped</dt><dd><p>files which have been mmapped, such as libraries. Note that some
kernel configurations might consider all pages part of a larger
allocation (e.g., THP) as “mapped”, as soon as a single page is
mapped.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Shmem</dt><dd><p>Total memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs</p>
</dd>
<dt>KReclaimable</dt><dd><p>Kernel allocations that the kernel will attempt to reclaim
under memory pressure. Includes SReclaimable (below), and other
direct allocations with a shrinker.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Slab</dt><dd><p>in-kernel data structures cache</p>
</dd>
<dt>SReclaimable</dt><dd><p>Part of Slab, that might be reclaimed, such as caches</p>
</dd>
<dt>SUnreclaim</dt><dd><p>Part of Slab, that cannot be reclaimed on memory pressure</p>
</dd>
<dt>KernelStack</dt><dd><p>Memory consumed by the kernel stacks of all tasks</p>
</dd>
<dt>PageTables</dt><dd><p>Memory consumed by userspace page tables</p>
</dd>
<dt>SecPageTables</dt><dd><p>Memory consumed by secondary page tables, this currently includes
KVM mmu and IOMMU allocations on x86 and arm64.</p>
</dd>
<dt>NFS_Unstable</dt><dd><p>Always zero. Previously counted pages which had been written to
the server, but has not been committed to stable storage.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Bounce</dt><dd><p>Always zero. Previously memory used for block device
“bounce buffers”.</p>
</dd>
<dt>WritebackTmp</dt><dd><p>Always zero. Previously memory used by FUSE for temporary
writeback buffers.</p>
</dd>
<dt>CommitLimit</dt><dd><p>Based on the overcommit ratio (‘vm.overcommit_ratio’),
this is the total amount of memory currently available to
be allocated on the system. This limit is only adhered to
if strict overcommit accounting is enabled (mode 2 in
‘vm.overcommit_memory’).</p>
<p>The CommitLimit is calculated with the following formula:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>CommitLimit = ([total RAM pages] - [total huge TLB pages]) *
overcommit_ratio / 100 + [total swap pages]
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>For example, on a system with 1G of physical RAM and 7G
of swap with a <cite>vm.overcommit_ratio</cite> of 30 it would
yield a CommitLimit of 7.3G.</p>
<p>For more details, see the memory overcommit documentation
in mm/overcommit-accounting.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Committed_AS</dt><dd><p>The amount of memory presently allocated on the system.
The committed memory is a sum of all of the memory which
has been allocated by processes, even if it has not been
“used” by them as of yet. A process which <code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">malloc()</span></code>’s 1G
of memory, but only touches 300M of it will show up as
using 1G. This 1G is memory which has been “committed” to
by the VM and can be used at any time by the allocating
application. With strict overcommit enabled on the system
(mode 2 in ‘vm.overcommit_memory’), allocations which would
exceed the CommitLimit (detailed above) will not be permitted.
This is useful if one needs to guarantee that processes will
not fail due to lack of memory once that memory has been
successfully allocated.</p>
</dd>
<dt>VmallocTotal</dt><dd><p>total size of vmalloc virtual address space</p>
</dd>
<dt>VmallocUsed</dt><dd><p>amount of vmalloc area which is used</p>
</dd>
<dt>VmallocChunk</dt><dd><p>largest contiguous block of vmalloc area which is free</p>
</dd>
<dt>Percpu</dt><dd><p>Memory allocated to the percpu allocator used to back percpu
allocations. This stat excludes the cost of metadata.</p>
</dd>
<dt>EarlyMemtestBad</dt><dd><p>The amount of RAM/memory in kB, that was identified as corrupted
by early memtest. If memtest was not run, this field will not
be displayed at all. Size is never rounded down to 0 kB.
That means if 0 kB is reported, you can safely assume
there was at least one pass of memtest and none of the passes
found a single faulty byte of RAM.</p>
</dd>
<dt>HardwareCorrupted</dt><dd><p>The amount of RAM/memory in KB, the kernel identifies as
corrupted.</p>
</dd>
<dt>AnonHugePages</dt><dd><p>Non-file backed huge pages mapped into userspace page tables</p>
</dd>
<dt>ShmemHugePages</dt><dd><p>Memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs allocated
with huge pages</p>
</dd>
<dt>ShmemPmdMapped</dt><dd><p>Shared memory mapped into userspace with huge pages</p>
</dd>
<dt>FileHugePages</dt><dd><p>Memory used for filesystem data (page cache) allocated
with huge pages</p>
</dd>
<dt>FilePmdMapped</dt><dd><p>Page cache mapped into userspace with huge pages</p>
</dd>
<dt>CmaTotal</dt><dd><p>Memory reserved for the Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA)</p>
</dd>
<dt>CmaFree</dt><dd><p>Free remaining memory in the CMA reserves</p>
</dd>
<dt>Unaccepted</dt><dd><p>Memory that has not been accepted by the guest</p>
</dd>
<dt>Balloon</dt><dd><p>Memory returned to Host by VM Balloon Drivers</p>
</dd>
<dt>HugePages_Total, HugePages_Free, HugePages_Rsvd, HugePages_Surp, Hugepagesize, Hugetlb</dt><dd><p>See <a class="reference internal" href="../admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.html"><span class="doc">HugeTLB Pages</span></a>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>DirectMap4k, DirectMap2M, DirectMap1G</dt><dd><p>Breakdown of page table sizes used in the kernel’s
identity mapping of RAM</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</section>
<section id="vmallocinfo">
<h4>vmallocinfo<a class="headerlink" href="#vmallocinfo" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Provides information about vmalloced/vmaped areas. One line per area,
containing the virtual address range of the area, size in bytes,
caller information of the creator, and optional information depending
on the kind of area:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><table class="docutils align-default">
<tbody>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>pages=nr</p></td>
<td><p>number of pages</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>phys=addr</p></td>
<td><p>if a physical address was specified</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ioremap</p></td>
<td><p>I/O mapping (<a class="reference internal" href="../driver-api/device-io.html#c.ioremap" title="ioremap"><code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ioremap()</span></code></a> and friends)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>vmalloc</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="../core-api/mm-api.html#c.vmalloc" title="vmalloc"><code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmalloc()</span></code></a> area</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>vmap</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="../core-api/mm-api.html#c.vmap" title="vmap"><code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">vmap()</span></code></a>ed pages</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>user</p></td>
<td><p>VM_USERMAP area</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>vpages</p></td>
<td><p>buffer for pages pointers was vmalloced (huge area)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>N<node>=nr</p></td>
<td><p>(Only on NUMA kernels)
Number of pages allocated on memory node <node></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div></blockquote>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/vmallocinfo
0xffffc20000000000-0xffffc20000201000 2101248 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204 ...
/0x2c0 pages=512 vmalloc N0=128 N1=128 N2=128 N3=128
0xffffc20000201000-0xffffc20000302000 1052672 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204 ...
/0x2c0 pages=256 vmalloc N0=64 N1=64 N2=64 N3=64
0xffffc20000302000-0xffffc20000304000 8192 acpi_tb_verify_table+0x21/0x4f...
phys=7fee8000 ioremap
0xffffc20000304000-0xffffc20000307000 12288 acpi_tb_verify_table+0x21/0x4f...
phys=7fee7000 ioremap
0xffffc2000031d000-0xffffc2000031f000 8192 init_vdso_vars+0x112/0x210
0xffffc2000031f000-0xffffc2000032b000 49152 cramfs_uncompress_init+0x2e ...
/0x80 pages=11 vmalloc N0=3 N1=3 N2=2 N3=3
0xffffc2000033a000-0xffffc2000033d000 12288 sys_swapon+0x640/0xac0 ...
pages=2 vmalloc N1=2
0xffffc20000347000-0xffffc2000034c000 20480 xt_alloc_table_info+0xfe ...
/0x130 [x_tables] pages=4 vmalloc N0=4
0xffffffffa0000000-0xffffffffa000f000 61440 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 ...
pages=14 vmalloc N2=14
0xffffffffa000f000-0xffffffffa0014000 20480 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 ...
pages=4 vmalloc N1=4
0xffffffffa0014000-0xffffffffa0017000 12288 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 ...
pages=2 vmalloc N1=2
0xffffffffa0017000-0xffffffffa0022000 45056 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 ...
pages=10 vmalloc N0=10
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="softirqs">
<h4>softirqs<a class="headerlink" href="#softirqs" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>Provides counts of softirq handlers serviced since boot time, for each CPU.</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/softirqs
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3
HI: 0 0 0 0
TIMER: 27166 27120 27097 27034
NET_TX: 0 0 0 17
NET_RX: 42 0 0 39
BLOCK: 0 0 107 1121
TASKLET: 0 0 0 290
SCHED: 27035 26983 26971 26746
HRTIMER: 0 0 0 0
RCU: 1678 1769 2178 2250
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section id="networking-info-in-proc-net">
<h3>1.3 Networking info in /proc/net<a class="headerlink" href="#networking-info-in-proc-net" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>The subdirectory /proc/net follows the usual pattern. Table 1-8 shows the
additional values you get for IP version 6 if you configure the kernel to
support this. Table 1-9 lists the files and their meaning.</p>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id14">
<caption><span class="caption-text">Table 1-8: IPv6 info in /proc/net</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id14" title="Link to this table">¶</a></caption>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>File</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Content</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>udp6</p></td>
<td><p>UDP sockets (IPv6)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>tcp6</p></td>
<td><p>TCP sockets (IPv6)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>raw6</p></td>
<td><p>Raw device statistics (IPv6)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>igmp6</p></td>
<td><p>IP multicast addresses, which this host joined (IPv6)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>if_inet6</p></td>
<td><p>List of IPv6 interface addresses</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ipv6_route</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel routing table for IPv6</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>rt6_stats</p></td>
<td><p>Global IPv6 routing tables statistics</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>sockstat6</p></td>
<td><p>Socket statistics (IPv6)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>snmp6</p></td>
<td><p>Snmp data (IPv6)</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id15">
<caption><span class="caption-text">Table 1-9: Network info in /proc/net</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id15" title="Link to this table">¶</a></caption>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>File</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Content</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>arp</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel ARP table</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>dev</p></td>
<td><p>network devices with statistics</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>dev_mcast</p></td>
<td><p>the Layer2 multicast groups a device is listening too
(interface index, label, number of references, number of bound
addresses).</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>dev_stat</p></td>
<td><p>network device status</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>ip_fwchains</p></td>
<td><p>Firewall chain linkage</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ip_fwnames</p></td>
<td><p>Firewall chain names</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>ip_masq</p></td>
<td><p>Directory containing the masquerading tables</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ip_masquerade</p></td>
<td><p>Major masquerading table</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>netstat</p></td>
<td><p>Network statistics</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>raw</p></td>
<td><p>raw device statistics</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>route</p></td>
<td><p>Kernel routing table</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>rpc</p></td>
<td><p>Directory containing rpc info</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>rt_cache</p></td>
<td><p>Routing cache</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>snmp</p></td>
<td><p>SNMP data</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>sockstat</p></td>
<td><p>Socket statistics</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>softnet_stat</p></td>
<td><p>Per-CPU incoming packets queues statistics of online CPUs</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>tcp</p></td>
<td><p>TCP sockets</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>udp</p></td>
<td><p>UDP sockets</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>unix</p></td>
<td><p>UNIX domain sockets</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>wireless</p></td>
<td><p>Wireless interface data (Wavelan etc)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>igmp</p></td>
<td><p>IP multicast addresses, which this host joined</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>psched</p></td>
<td><p>Global packet scheduler parameters.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>netlink</p></td>
<td><p>List of PF_NETLINK sockets</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ip_mr_vifs</p></td>
<td><p>List of multicast virtual interfaces</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>ip_mr_cache</p></td>
<td><p>List of multicast routing cache</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>You can use this information to see which network devices are available in
your system and how much traffic was routed over those devices:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-|Receive |[...
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|[...
lo: 908188 5596 0 0 0 0 0 0 [...
ppp0:15475140 20721 410 0 0 410 0 0 [...
eth0: 614530 7085 0 0 0 0 0 1 [...
...] Transmit
...] bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
...] 908188 5596 0 0 0 0 0 0
...] 1375103 17405 0 0 0 0 0 0
...] 1703981 5535 0 0 0 3 0 0
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>In addition, each Channel Bond interface has its own directory. For
example, the bond0 device will have a directory called /proc/net/bond0/.
It will contain information that is specific to that bond, such as the
current slaves of the bond, the link status of the slaves, and how
many times the slaves link has failed.</p>
</section>
<section id="scsi-info">
<h3>1.4 SCSI info<a class="headerlink" href="#scsi-info" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>If you have a SCSI or ATA host adapter in your system, you’ll find a
subdirectory named after the driver for this adapter in /proc/scsi.
You’ll also see a list of all recognized SCSI devices in /proc/scsi:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>>cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM Model: DGHS09U Rev: 03E0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
Vendor: PIONEER Model: CD-ROM DR-U06S Rev: 1.04
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The directory named after the driver has one file for each adapter found in
the system. These files contain information about the controller, including
the used IRQ and the IO address range. The amount of information shown is
dependent on the adapter you use. The example shows the output for an Adaptec
AHA-2940 SCSI adapter:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0
Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.1.19/3.2.4
Compile Options:
TCQ Enabled By Default : Disabled
AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Disabled
AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 5
Adapter Configuration:
SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter
Ultra Wide Controller
PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xeb001000
Adapter SEEPROM Config: SEEPROM found and used.
Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled
IRQ: 10
SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 2,
Allocated 15, HW 16, Page 255
Interrupts: 160328
BIOS Control Word: 0x18b6
Adapter Control Word: 0x005b
Extended Translation: Enabled
Disconnect Enable Flags: 0xffff
Ultra Enable Flags: 0x0001
Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0000
Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0000
Default Tag Queue Depth: 8
Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0:
{255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255}
Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0:
{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1}
Statistics:
(scsi0:0:0:0)
Device using Wide/Sync transfers at 40.0 MByte/sec, offset 8
Transinfo settings: current(12/8/1/0), goal(12/8/1/0), user(12/15/1/0)
Total transfers 160151 (74577 reads and 85574 writes)
(scsi0:0:6:0)
Device using Narrow/Sync transfers at 5.0 MByte/sec, offset 15
Transinfo settings: current(50/15/0/0), goal(50/15/0/0), user(50/15/0/0)
Total transfers 0 (0 reads and 0 writes)
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="parallel-port-info-in-proc-parport">
<h3>1.5 Parallel port info in /proc/parport<a class="headerlink" href="#parallel-port-info-in-proc-parport" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>The directory /proc/parport contains information about the parallel ports of
your system. It has one subdirectory for each port, named after the port
number (0,1,2,...).</p>
<p>These directories contain the four files shown in Table 1-10.</p>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id16">
<caption><span class="caption-text">Table 1-10: Files in /proc/parport</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id16" title="Link to this table">¶</a></caption>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>File</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Content</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>autoprobe</p></td>
<td><p>Any IEEE-1284 device ID information that has been acquired.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>devices</p></td>
<td><p>list of the device drivers using that port. A + will appear by the
name of the device currently using the port (it might not appear
against any).</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>hardware</p></td>
<td><p>Parallel port’s base address, IRQ line and DMA channel.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>irq</p></td>
<td><p>IRQ that parport is using for that port. This is in a separate
file to allow you to alter it by writing a new value in (IRQ
number or none).</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="tty-info-in-proc-tty">
<h3>1.6 TTY info in /proc/tty<a class="headerlink" href="#tty-info-in-proc-tty" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Information about the available and actually used tty’s can be found in the
directory /proc/tty. You’ll find entries for drivers and line disciplines in
this directory, as shown in Table 1-11.</p>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id17">
<caption><span class="caption-text">Table 1-11: Files in /proc/tty</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id17" title="Link to this table">¶</a></caption>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>File</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Content</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>drivers</p></td>
<td><p>list of drivers and their usage</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>ldiscs</p></td>
<td><p>registered line disciplines</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>driver/serial</p></td>
<td><p>usage statistic and status of single tty lines</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>To see which tty’s are currently in use, you can simply look into the file
/proc/tty/drivers:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/tty/drivers
pty_slave /dev/pts 136 0-255 pty:slave
pty_master /dev/ptm 128 0-255 pty:master
pty_slave /dev/ttyp 3 0-255 pty:slave
pty_master /dev/pty 2 0-255 pty:master
serial /dev/cua 5 64-67 serial:callout
serial /dev/ttyS 4 64-67 serial
/dev/tty0 /dev/tty0 4 0 system:vtmaster
/dev/ptmx /dev/ptmx 5 2 system
/dev/console /dev/console 5 1 system:console
/dev/tty /dev/tty 5 0 system:/dev/tty
unknown /dev/tty 4 1-63 console
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="miscellaneous-kernel-statistics-in-proc-stat">
<h3>1.7 Miscellaneous kernel statistics in /proc/stat<a class="headerlink" href="#miscellaneous-kernel-statistics-in-proc-stat" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Various pieces of information about kernel activity are available in the
/proc/stat file. All of the numbers reported in this file are aggregates
since the system first booted. For a quick look, simply cat the file:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/stat
cpu 237902850 368826709 106375398 1873517540 1135548 0 14507935 0 0 0
cpu0 60045249 91891769 26331539 468411416 495718 0 5739640 0 0 0
cpu1 59746288 91759249 26609887 468860630 312281 0 4384817 0 0 0
cpu2 59489247 92985423 26904446 467808813 171668 0 2268998 0 0 0
cpu3 58622065 92190267 26529524 468436680 155879 0 2114478 0 0 0
intr 8688370575 8 3373 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 40791 0 0 353317 0 0 0 0 224789828 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 190974333 41958554 123983334 43 0 224593 0 0 0 <more 0's deleted>
ctxt 22848221062
btime 1605316999
processes 746787147
procs_running 2
procs_blocked 0
softirq 12121874454 100099120 3938138295 127375644 2795979 187870761 0 173808342 3072582055 52608 224184354
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The very first “cpu” line aggregates the numbers in all of the other “cpuN”
lines. These numbers identify the amount of time the CPU has spent performing
different kinds of work. Time units are in USER_HZ (typically hundredths of a
second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>user: normal processes executing in user mode</p></li>
<li><p>nice: niced processes executing in user mode</p></li>
<li><p>system: processes executing in kernel mode</p></li>
<li><p>idle: twiddling thumbs</p></li>
<li><p>iowait: In a word, iowait stands for waiting for I/O to complete. But there
are several problems:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p>CPU will not wait for I/O to complete, iowait is the time that a task is
waiting for I/O to complete. When CPU goes into idle state for
outstanding task I/O, another task will be scheduled on this CPU.</p></li>
<li><p>In a multi-core CPU, the task waiting for I/O to complete is not running
on any CPU, so the iowait of each CPU is difficult to calculate.</p></li>
<li><p>The value of iowait field in /proc/stat will decrease in certain
conditions.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>So, the iowait is not reliable by reading from /proc/stat.</p>
</li>
<li><p>irq: servicing interrupts</p></li>
<li><p>softirq: servicing softirqs</p></li>
<li><p>steal: involuntary wait</p></li>
<li><p>guest: running a normal guest</p></li>
<li><p>guest_nice: running a niced guest</p></li>
</ul>
<p>The “intr” line gives counts of interrupts serviced since boot time, for each
of the possible system interrupts. The first column is the total of all
interrupts serviced including unnumbered architecture specific interrupts;
each subsequent column is the total for that particular numbered interrupt.
Unnumbered interrupts are not shown, only summed into the total.</p>
<p>The “ctxt” line gives the total number of context switches across all CPUs.</p>
<p>The “btime” line gives the time at which the system booted, in seconds since
the Unix epoch.</p>
<p>The “processes” line gives the number of processes and threads created, which
includes (but is not limited to) those created by calls to the fork() and
clone() system calls.</p>
<p>The “procs_running” line gives the total number of threads that are
running or ready to run (i.e., the total number of runnable threads).</p>
<p>The “procs_blocked” line gives the number of processes currently blocked,
waiting for I/O to complete.</p>
<p>The “softirq” line gives counts of softirqs serviced since boot time, for each
of the possible system softirqs. The first column is the total of all
softirqs serviced; each subsequent column is the total for that particular
softirq.</p>
</section>
<section id="ext4-file-system-parameters">
<h3>1.8 Ext4 file system parameters<a class="headerlink" href="#ext4-file-system-parameters" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Information about mounted ext4 file systems can be found in
/proc/fs/ext4. Each mounted filesystem will have a directory in
/proc/fs/ext4 based on its device name (i.e., /proc/fs/ext4/hdc or
/proc/fs/ext4/sda9 or /proc/fs/ext4/dm-0). The files in each per-device
directory are shown in Table 1-12, below.</p>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id18">
<caption><span class="caption-text">Table 1-12: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname></span><a class="headerlink" href="#id18" title="Link to this table">¶</a></caption>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>File</p></td>
<td><p>Content</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>mb_groups</p></td>
<td><p>details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="proc-consoles">
<h3>1.9 /proc/consoles<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-consoles" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Shows registered system console lines.</p>
<p>To see which character device lines are currently used for the system console
/dev/console, you may simply look into the file /proc/consoles:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>> cat /proc/consoles
tty0 -WU (ECp) 4:7
ttyS0 -W- (Ep) 4:64
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The columns are:</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>device</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>name of the device</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>operations</p></td>
<td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>R = can do read operations</p></li>
<li><p>W = can do write operations</p></li>
<li><p>U = can do unblank</p></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>flags</p></td>
<td><ul class="simple">
<li><p>E = it is enabled</p></li>
<li><p>C = it is preferred console</p></li>
<li><p>B = it is primary boot console</p></li>
<li><p>p = it is used for printk buffer</p></li>
<li><p>b = it is not a TTY but a Braille device</p></li>
<li><p>a = it is safe to use when cpu is offline</p></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>major:minor</p></td>
<td><p>major and minor number of the device separated by a
colon</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="summary">
<h3>Summary<a class="headerlink" href="#summary" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>The /proc file system serves information about the running system. It not only
allows access to process data but also allows you to request the kernel status
by reading files in the hierarchy.</p>
<p>The directory structure of /proc reflects the types of information and makes
it easy, if not obvious, where to look for specific data.</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="chapter-2-modifying-system-parameters">
<h2>Chapter 2: Modifying System Parameters<a class="headerlink" href="#chapter-2-modifying-system-parameters" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<section id="id1">
<h3>In This Chapter<a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Modifying kernel parameters by writing into files found in /proc/sys</p></li>
<li><p>Exploring the files which modify certain parameters</p></li>
<li><p>Review of the /proc/sys file tree</p></li>
</ul>
<hr class="docutils" />
<p>A very interesting part of /proc is the directory /proc/sys. This is not only
a source of information, it also allows you to change parameters within the
kernel. Be very careful when attempting this. You can optimize your system,
but you can also cause it to crash. Never alter kernel parameters on a
production system. Set up a development machine and test to make sure that
everything works the way you want it to. You may have no alternative but to
reboot the machine once an error has been made.</p>
<p>To change a value, simply echo the new value into the file.
You need to be root to do this. You can create your own boot script
to perform this every time your system boots.</p>
<p>The files in /proc/sys can be used to fine tune and monitor miscellaneous and
general things in the operation of the Linux kernel. Since some of the files
can inadvertently disrupt your system, it is advisable to read both
documentation and source before actually making adjustments. In any case, be
very careful when writing to any of these files. The entries in /proc may
change slightly between the 2.1.* and the 2.2 kernel, so if there is any doubt
review the kernel documentation in the directory linux/Documentation.
This chapter is heavily based on the documentation included in the pre 2.2
kernels, and became part of it in version 2.2.1 of the Linux kernel.</p>
<p>Please see: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/ directory for descriptions of
these entries.</p>
</section>
<section id="id2">
<h3>Summary<a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Certain aspects of kernel behavior can be modified at runtime, without the
need to recompile the kernel, or even to reboot the system. The files in the
/proc/sys tree can not only be read, but also modified. You can use the echo
command to write value into these files, thereby changing the default settings
of the kernel.</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="chapter-3-per-process-parameters">
<h2>Chapter 3: Per-process Parameters<a class="headerlink" href="#chapter-3-per-process-parameters" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<section id="proc-pid-oom-adj-proc-pid-oom-score-adj-adjust-the-oom-killer-score">
<h3>3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj & /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj- Adjust the oom-killer score<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-oom-adj-proc-pid-oom-score-adj-adjust-the-oom-killer-score" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>These files can be used to adjust the badness heuristic used to select which
process gets killed in out of memory (oom) conditions.</p>
<p>The badness heuristic assigns a value to each candidate task ranging from 0
(never kill) to 1000 (always kill) to determine which process is targeted. The
units are roughly a proportion along that range of allowed memory the process
may allocate from based on an estimation of its current memory and swap use.
For example, if a task is using all allowed memory, its badness score will be
1000. If it is using half of its allowed memory, its score will be 500.</p>
<p>The amount of “allowed” memory depends on the context in which the oom killer
was called. If it is due to the memory assigned to the allocating task’s cpuset
being exhausted, the allowed memory represents the set of mems assigned to that
cpuset. If it is due to a mempolicy’s node(s) being exhausted, the allowed
memory represents the set of mempolicy nodes. If it is due to a memory
limit (or swap limit) being reached, the allowed memory is that configured
limit. Finally, if it is due to the entire system being out of memory, the
allowed memory represents all allocatable resources.</p>
<p>The value of /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj is added to the badness score before it
is used to determine which task to kill. Acceptable values range from -1000
(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN) to +1000 (OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX). This allows userspace to
polarize the preference for oom killing either by always preferring a certain
task or completely disabling it. The lowest possible value, -1000, is
equivalent to disabling oom killing entirely for that task since it will always
report a badness score of 0.</p>
<p>Consequently, it is very simple for userspace to define the amount of memory to
consider for each task. Setting a /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj value of +500, for
example, is roughly equivalent to allowing the remainder of tasks sharing the
same system, cpuset, mempolicy, or memory controller resources to use at least
50% more memory. A value of -500, on the other hand, would be roughly
equivalent to discounting 50% of the task’s allowed memory from being considered
as scoring against the task.</p>
<p>For backwards compatibility with previous kernels, /proc/<pid>/oom_adj may also
be used to tune the badness score. Its acceptable values range from -16
(OOM_ADJUST_MIN) to +15 (OOM_ADJUST_MAX) and a special value of -17
(OOM_DISABLE) to disable oom killing entirely for that task. Its value is
scaled linearly with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj.</p>
<p>The value of /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj may be reduced no lower than the last
value set by a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE process. To reduce the value any lower
requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.</p>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-oom-score-display-current-oom-killer-score">
<h3>3.2 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-oom-score-display-current-oom-killer-score" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer for
any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj to tune which
process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation.</p>
<p>Please note that the exported value includes oom_score_adj so it is
effectively in range [0,2000].</p>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-io-display-the-io-accounting-fields">
<h3>3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-io-display-the-io-accounting-fields" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>This file contains IO statistics for each running process.</p>
<section id="example">
<h4>Example<a class="headerlink" href="#example" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>test:/tmp # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.dat &
[1] 3828
test:/tmp # cat /proc/3828/io
rchar: 323934931
wchar: 323929600
syscr: 632687
syscw: 632675
read_bytes: 0
write_bytes: 323932160
cancelled_write_bytes: 0
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="description">
<h4>Description<a class="headerlink" href="#description" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<section id="rchar">
<h5>rchar<a class="headerlink" href="#rchar" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>I/O counter: chars read
The number of bytes which this task has caused to be read from storage. This
is simply the sum of bytes which this process passed to read() and <code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pread()</span></code>.
It includes things like tty IO and it is unaffected by whether or not actual
physical disk IO was required (the read might have been satisfied from
pagecache).</p>
</section>
<section id="wchar">
<h5>wchar<a class="headerlink" href="#wchar" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>I/O counter: chars written
The number of bytes which this task has caused, or shall cause to be written
to disk. Similar caveats apply here as with rchar.</p>
</section>
<section id="syscr">
<h5>syscr<a class="headerlink" href="#syscr" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>I/O counter: read syscalls
Attempt to count the number of read I/O operations, i.e. syscalls like read()
and <code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pread()</span></code>.</p>
</section>
<section id="syscw">
<h5>syscw<a class="headerlink" href="#syscw" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>I/O counter: write syscalls
Attempt to count the number of write I/O operations, i.e. syscalls like
write() and <code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pwrite()</span></code>.</p>
</section>
<section id="read-bytes">
<h5>read_bytes<a class="headerlink" href="#read-bytes" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>I/O counter: bytes read
Attempt to count the number of bytes which this process really did cause to
be fetched from the storage layer. Done at the <a class="reference internal" href="../core-api/kernel-api.html#c.submit_bio" title="submit_bio"><code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">submit_bio()</span></code></a> level, so it is
accurate for block-backed filesystems. <please add status regarding NFS and
CIFS at a later time></p>
</section>
<section id="write-bytes">
<h5>write_bytes<a class="headerlink" href="#write-bytes" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>I/O counter: bytes written
Attempt to count the number of bytes which this process caused to be sent to
the storage layer. This is done at page-dirtying time.</p>
</section>
<section id="cancelled-write-bytes">
<h5>cancelled_write_bytes<a class="headerlink" href="#cancelled-write-bytes" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>The big inaccuracy here is truncate. If a process writes 1MB to a file and
then deletes the file, it will in fact perform no writeout. But it will have
been accounted as having caused 1MB of write.
In other words: The number of bytes which this process caused to not happen,
by truncating pagecache. A task can cause “negative” IO too. If this task
truncates some dirty pagecache, some IO which another task has been accounted
for (in its write_bytes) will not be happening. We _could_ just subtract that
from the truncating task’s write_bytes, but there is information loss in doing
that.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>At its current implementation state, this is a bit racy on 32-bit machines:
if process A reads process B’s /proc/pid/io while process B is updating one
of those 64-bit counters, process A could see an intermediate result.</p>
</div>
<p>More information about this can be found within the taskstats documentation in
Documentation/accounting.</p>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-coredump-filter-core-dump-filtering-settings">
<h3>3.4 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-coredump-filter-core-dump-filtering-settings" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>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 or DAX.
Conversely, sometimes we want to save file-backed memory segments into a core
file, not only the individual files.</p>
<p>/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter allows you to customize which memory segments
will be dumped when the <pid> process is dumped. coredump_filter is a bitmask
of memory types. If a bit of the bitmask is set, memory segments of the
corresponding memory type are dumped, otherwise they are not dumped.</p>
<p>The following 9 memory types are supported:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li><p>(bit 0) anonymous private memory</p></li>
<li><p>(bit 1) anonymous shared memory</p></li>
<li><p>(bit 2) file-backed private memory</p></li>
<li><p>(bit 3) file-backed shared memory</p></li>
<li><p>(bit 4) ELF header pages in file-backed private memory areas (it is
effective only if the bit 2 is cleared)</p></li>
<li><p>(bit 5) hugetlb private memory</p></li>
<li><p>(bit 6) hugetlb shared memory</p></li>
<li><p>(bit 7) DAX private memory</p></li>
<li><p>(bit 8) DAX shared memory</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Note that MMIO pages such as frame buffer are never dumped and vDSO pages
are always dumped regardless of the bitmask status.</p>
<p>Note that bits 0-4 don’t affect hugetlb or DAX memory. hugetlb memory is
only affected by bit 5-6, and DAX is only affected by bits 7-8.</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>The default value of coredump_filter is 0x33; this means all anonymous memory
segments, ELF header pages and hugetlb private memory are dumped.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to dump all shared memory segments attached to pid 1234,
write 0x31 to the process’s proc file:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ echo 0x31 > /proc/1234/coredump_filter
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When a new process is created, the process inherits the bitmask status from its
parent. It is useful to set up coredump_filter before the program runs.
For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ echo 0x7 > /proc/self/coredump_filter
$ ./some_program
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-mountinfo-information-about-mounts">
<h3>3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-mountinfo-information-about-mounts" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>This file contains lines of the form:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>36 35 98:0 /mnt1 /mnt2 rw,noatime master:1 - ext3 /dev/root rw,errors=continue
(1)(2)(3) (4) (5) (6) (n…m) (m+1)(m+2) (m+3) (m+4)
(1) mount ID: unique identifier of the mount (may be reused after umount)
(2) parent ID: ID of parent (or of self for the top of the mount tree)
(3) major:minor: value of st_dev for files on filesystem
(4) root: root of the mount within the filesystem
(5) mount point: mount point relative to the process's root
(6) mount options: per mount options
(n…m) optional fields: zero or more fields of the form "tag[:value]"
(m+1) separator: marks the end of the optional fields
(m+2) filesystem type: name of filesystem of the form "type[.subtype]"
(m+3) mount source: filesystem specific information or "none"
(m+4) super options: per super block options
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Parsers should ignore all unrecognised optional fields. Currently the
possible optional fields are:</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<tbody>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>shared:X</p></td>
<td><p>mount is shared in peer group X</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>master:X</p></td>
<td><p>mount is slave to peer group X</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>propagate_from:X</p></td>
<td><p>mount is slave and receives propagation from peer group X <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id4" id="id3" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>1<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>unbindable</p></td>
<td><p>mount is unbindable</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<aside class="footnote-list brackets">
<aside class="footnote brackets" id="id4" role="doc-footnote">
<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#id3">1</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
<p>X is the closest dominant peer group under the process’s root. If
X is the immediate master of the mount, or if there’s no dominant peer
group under the same root, then only the “master:X” field is present
and not the “propagate_from:X” field.</p>
</aside>
</aside>
<p>For more information on mount propagation see:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p><a class="reference internal" href="sharedsubtree.html"><span class="doc">Shared Subtrees</span></a></p>
</div></blockquote>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-comm-proc-pid-task-tid-comm">
<h3>3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-comm-proc-pid-task-tid-comm" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>These files provide a method to access a task’s comm value. It also allows for
a task to set its own or one of its thread siblings comm value. The comm value
is limited in size compared to the cmdline value, so writing anything longer
then the kernel’s TASK_COMM_LEN (currently 16 chars, including the NUL
terminator) will result in a truncated comm value.</p>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-task-tid-children-information-about-task-children">
<h3>3.7 /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-task-tid-children-information-about-task-children" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>This file provides a fast way to retrieve first level children pids
of a task pointed by <pid>/<tid> pair. The format is a space separated
stream of pids.</p>
<p>Note the “first level” here -- if a child has its own children they will
not be listed here; one needs to read /proc/<children-pid>/task/<tid>/children
to obtain the descendants.</p>
<p>Since this interface is intended to be fast and cheap it doesn’t
guarantee to provide precise results and some children might be
skipped, especially if they’ve exited right after we printed their
pids, so one needs to either stop or freeze processes being inspected
if precise results are needed.</p>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-fdinfo-fd-information-about-opened-file">
<h3>3.8 /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-fdinfo-fd-information-about-opened-file" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>This file provides information associated with an opened file. The regular
files have at least four fields -- ‘pos’, ‘flags’, ‘mnt_id’ and ‘ino’.
The ‘pos’ represents the current offset of the opened file in decimal
form [see lseek(2) for details], ‘flags’ denotes the octal O_xxx mask the
file has been created with [see open(2) for details] and ‘mnt_id’ represents
mount ID of the file system containing the opened file [see 3.5
/proc/<pid>/mountinfo for details]. ‘ino’ represents the inode number of
the file.</p>
<p>A typical output is:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pos: 0
flags: 0100002
mnt_id: 19
ino: 63107
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>All locks associated with a file descriptor are shown in its fdinfo too:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>lock: 1: FLOCK ADVISORY WRITE 359 00:13:11691 0 EOF
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The files such as eventfd, fsnotify, signalfd, epoll among the regular pos/flags
pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.</p>
<section id="eventfd-files">
<h4>Eventfd files<a class="headerlink" href="#eventfd-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pos: 0
flags: 04002
mnt_id: 9
ino: 63107
eventfd-count: 5a
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where ‘eventfd-count’ is hex value of a counter.</p>
</section>
<section id="signalfd-files">
<h4>Signalfd files<a class="headerlink" href="#signalfd-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pos: 0
flags: 04002
mnt_id: 9
ino: 63107
sigmask: 0000000000000200
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where ‘sigmask’ is hex value of the signal mask associated
with a file.</p>
</section>
<section id="epoll-files">
<h4>Epoll files<a class="headerlink" href="#epoll-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pos: 0
flags: 02
mnt_id: 9
ino: 63107
tfd: 5 events: 1d data: ffffffffffffffff pos:0 ino:61af sdev:7
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where ‘tfd’ is a target file descriptor number in decimal form,
‘events’ is events mask being watched and the ‘data’ is data
associated with a target [see epoll(7) for more details].</p>
<p>The ‘pos’ is current offset of the target file in decimal form
[see lseek(2)], ‘ino’ and ‘sdev’ are inode and device numbers
where target file resides, all in hex format.</p>
</section>
<section id="fsnotify-files">
<h4>Fsnotify files<a class="headerlink" href="#fsnotify-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<p>For inotify files the format is the following:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pos: 0
flags: 02000000
mnt_id: 9
ino: 63107
inotify wd:3 ino:9e7e sdev:800013 mask:800afce ignored_mask:0 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:7e9e0000640d1b6d
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where ‘wd’ is a watch descriptor in decimal form, i.e. a target file
descriptor number, ‘ino’ and ‘sdev’ are inode and device where the
target file resides and the ‘mask’ is the mask of events, all in hex
form [see inotify(7) for more details].</p>
<p>If the kernel was built with exportfs support, the path to the target
file is encoded as a file handle. The file handle is provided by three
fields ‘fhandle-bytes’, ‘fhandle-type’ and ‘f_handle’, all in hex
format.</p>
<p>If the kernel is built without exportfs support the file handle won’t be
printed out.</p>
<p>If there is no inotify mark attached yet the ‘inotify’ line will be omitted.</p>
<p>For fanotify files the format is:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pos: 0
flags: 02
mnt_id: 9
ino: 63107
fanotify flags:10 event-flags:0
fanotify mnt_id:12 mflags:40 mask:38 ignored_mask:40000003
fanotify ino:4f969 sdev:800013 mflags:0 mask:3b ignored_mask:40000000 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:69f90400c275b5b4
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where fanotify ‘flags’ and ‘event-flags’ are values used in fanotify_init
call, ‘mnt_id’ is the mount point identifier, ‘mflags’ is the value of
flags associated with mark which are tracked separately from events
mask. ‘ino’ and ‘sdev’ are target inode and device, ‘mask’ is the events
mask and ‘ignored_mask’ is the mask of events which are to be ignored.
All are in hex format. Incorporation of ‘mflags’, ‘mask’ and ‘ignored_mask’
provide information about flags and mask used in fanotify_mark
call [see fsnotify manpage for details].</p>
<p>While the first three lines are mandatory and always printed, the rest is
optional and may be omitted if no marks created yet.</p>
</section>
<section id="timerfd-files">
<h4>Timerfd files<a class="headerlink" href="#timerfd-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pos: 0
flags: 02
mnt_id: 9
ino: 63107
clockid: 0
ticks: 0
settime flags: 01
it_value: (0, 49406829)
it_interval: (1, 0)
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where ‘clockid’ is the clock type and ‘ticks’ is the number of the timer expirations
that have occurred [see timerfd_create(2) for details]. ‘settime flags’ are
flags in octal form been used to setup the timer [see timerfd_settime(2) for
details]. ‘it_value’ is remaining time until the timer expiration.
‘it_interval’ is the interval for the timer. Note the timer might be set up
with TIMER_ABSTIME option which will be shown in ‘settime flags’, but ‘it_value’
still exhibits timer’s remaining time.</p>
</section>
<section id="dma-buffer-files">
<h4>DMA Buffer files<a class="headerlink" href="#dma-buffer-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pos: 0
flags: 04002
mnt_id: 9
ino: 63107
size: 32768
count: 2
exp_name: system-heap
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where ‘size’ is the size of the DMA buffer in bytes. ‘count’ is the file count of
the DMA buffer file. ‘exp_name’ is the name of the DMA buffer exporter.</p>
</section>
<section id="vfio-device-files">
<h4>VFIO Device files<a class="headerlink" href="#vfio-device-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pos: 0
flags: 02000002
mnt_id: 17
ino: 5122
vfio-device-syspath: /sys/devices/pci0000:e0/0000:e0:01.1/0000:e1:00.0/0000:e2:05.0/0000:e8:00.0
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where ‘vfio-device-syspath’ is the sysfs path corresponding to the VFIO device
file.</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-map-files-information-about-memory-mapped-files">
<h3>3.9 /proc/<pid>/map_files - Information about memory mapped files<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-map-files-information-about-memory-mapped-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>This directory contains symbolic links which represent memory mapped files
the process is maintaining. Example output:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>| lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 333c600000-333c620000 -> /usr/lib64/ld-2.18.so
| lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 333c81f000-333c820000 -> /usr/lib64/ld-2.18.so
| lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 333c820000-333c821000 -> /usr/lib64/ld-2.18.so
| ...
| lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 35d0421000-35d0422000 -> /usr/lib64/libselinux.so.1
| lr-------- 1 root root 64 Jan 27 11:24 400000-41a000 -> /usr/bin/ls
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The name of a link represents the virtual memory bounds of a mapping, i.e.
vm_area_struct::vm_start-vm_area_struct::vm_end.</p>
<p>The main purpose of the map_files is to retrieve a set of memory mapped
files in a fast way instead of parsing /proc/<pid>/maps or
/proc/<pid>/smaps, both of which contain many more records. At the same
time one can open(2) mappings from the listings of two processes and
comparing their inode numbers to figure out which anonymous memory areas
are actually shared.</p>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-timerslack-ns-task-timerslack-value">
<h3>3.10 /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns - Task timerslack value<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-timerslack-ns-task-timerslack-value" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>This file provides the value of the task’s timerslack value in nanoseconds.
This value specifies an amount of time that normal timers may be deferred
in order to coalesce timers and avoid unnecessary wakeups.</p>
<p>This allows a task’s interactivity vs power consumption tradeoff to be
adjusted.</p>
<p>Writing 0 to the file will set the task’s timerslack to the default value.</p>
<p>Valid values are from 0 - ULLONG_MAX</p>
<p>An application setting the value must have PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS level
permissions on the task specified to change its timerslack_ns value.</p>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-patch-state-livepatch-patch-operation-state">
<h3>3.11 /proc/<pid>/patch_state - Livepatch patch operation state<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-patch-state-livepatch-patch-operation-state" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>When CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled, this file displays the value of the
patch state for the task.</p>
<p>A value of ‘-1’ indicates that no patch is in transition.</p>
<p>A value of ‘0’ indicates that a patch is in transition and the task is
unpatched. If the patch is being enabled, then the task hasn’t been
patched yet. If the patch is being disabled, then the task has already
been unpatched.</p>
<p>A value of ‘1’ indicates that a patch is in transition and the task is
patched. If the patch is being enabled, then the task has already been
patched. If the patch is being disabled, then the task hasn’t been
unpatched yet.</p>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-arch-status-task-architecture-specific-status">
<h3>3.12 /proc/<pid>/arch_status - task architecture specific status<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-arch-status-task-architecture-specific-status" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>When CONFIG_PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS is enabled, this file displays the
architecture specific status of the task.</p>
<section id="id5">
<h4>Example<a class="headerlink" href="#id5" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>$ cat /proc/6753/arch_status
AVX512_elapsed_ms: 8
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="id6">
<h4>Description<a class="headerlink" href="#id6" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
</section>
<section id="x86-specific-entries">
<h4>x86 specific entries<a class="headerlink" href="#x86-specific-entries" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<section id="avx512-elapsed-ms">
<h5>AVX512_elapsed_ms<a class="headerlink" href="#avx512-elapsed-ms" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<blockquote>
<div><p>If AVX512 is supported on the machine, this entry shows the milliseconds
elapsed since the last time AVX512 usage was recorded. The recording
happens on a best effort basis when a task is scheduled out. This means
that the value depends on two factors:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p>The time which the task spent on the CPU without being scheduled
out. With CPU isolation and a single runnable task this can take
several seconds.</p></li>
<li><p>The time since the task was scheduled out last. Depending on the
reason for being scheduled out (time slice exhausted, syscall ...)
this can be arbitrary long time.</p></li>
</ol>
</div></blockquote>
<p>As a consequence the value cannot be considered precise and authoritative
information. The application which uses this information has to be aware
of the overall scenario on the system in order to determine whether a
task is a real AVX512 user or not. Precise information can be obtained
with performance counters.</p>
<p>A special value of ‘-1’ indicates that no AVX512 usage was recorded, thus
the task is unlikely an AVX512 user, but depends on the workload and the
scheduling scenario, it also could be a false negative mentioned above.</p>
</div></blockquote>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-fd-list-of-symlinks-to-open-files">
<h3>3.13 /proc/<pid>/fd - List of symlinks to open files<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-fd-list-of-symlinks-to-open-files" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>This directory contains symbolic links which represent open files
the process is maintaining. Example output:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Sep 20 17:53 0 -> /dev/null
l-wx------ 1 root root 64 Sep 20 17:53 1 -> /dev/null
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Sep 20 17:53 10 -> 'socket:[12539]'
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Sep 20 17:53 11 -> 'socket:[12540]'
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Sep 20 17:53 12 -> 'socket:[12542]'
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The number of open files for the process is stored in ‘size’ member
of <code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">stat()</span></code> output for /proc/<pid>/fd for fast access.
-------------------------------------------------------</p>
</section>
<section id="proc-pid-ksm-stat-information-about-the-process-s-ksm-status">
<h3>3.14 /proc/<pid/ksm_stat - Information about the process’s ksm status<a class="headerlink" href="#proc-pid-ksm-stat-information-about-the-process-s-ksm-status" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>When CONFIG_KSM is enabled, each process has this file which displays
the information of ksm merging status.</p>
<section id="id7">
<h4>Example<a class="headerlink" href="#id7" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>/ # cat /proc/self/ksm_stat
ksm_rmap_items 0
ksm_zero_pages 0
ksm_merging_pages 0
ksm_process_profit 0
ksm_merge_any: no
ksm_mergeable: no
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="id8">
<h4>Description<a class="headerlink" href="#id8" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h4>
<section id="ksm-rmap-items">
<h5>ksm_rmap_items<a class="headerlink" href="#ksm-rmap-items" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>The number of ksm_rmap_item structures in use. The structure
ksm_rmap_item stores the reverse mapping information for virtual
addresses. KSM will generate a ksm_rmap_item for each ksm-scanned page of
the process.</p>
</section>
<section id="ksm-zero-pages">
<h5>ksm_zero_pages<a class="headerlink" href="#ksm-zero-pages" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>When /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/use_zero_pages is enabled, it represent how many
empty pages are merged with kernel zero pages by KSM.</p>
</section>
<section id="ksm-merging-pages">
<h5>ksm_merging_pages<a class="headerlink" href="#ksm-merging-pages" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>It represents how many pages of this process are involved in KSM merging
(not including ksm_zero_pages). It is the same with what
/proc/<pid>/ksm_merging_pages shows.</p>
</section>
<section id="ksm-process-profit">
<h5>ksm_process_profit<a class="headerlink" href="#ksm-process-profit" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>The profit that KSM brings (Saved bytes). KSM can save memory by merging
identical pages, but also can consume additional memory, because it needs
to generate a number of rmap_items to save each scanned page’s brief rmap
information. Some of these pages may be merged, but some may not be abled
to be merged after being checked several times, which are unprofitable
memory consumed.</p>
</section>
<section id="ksm-merge-any">
<h5>ksm_merge_any<a class="headerlink" href="#ksm-merge-any" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>It specifies whether the process’s ‘mm is added by <code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prctl()</span></code> into the
candidate list of KSM or not, and if KSM scanning is fully enabled at
process level.</p>
</section>
<section id="ksm-mergeable">
<h5>ksm_mergeable<a class="headerlink" href="#ksm-mergeable" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>It specifies whether any VMAs of the process’’s mms are currently
applicable to KSM.</p>
<p>More information about KSM can be found in
<a class="reference internal" href="../admin-guide/mm/ksm.html"><span class="doc">Kernel Samepage Merging</span></a>.</p>
</section>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section id="chapter-4-configuring-procfs">
<h2>Chapter 4: Configuring procfs<a class="headerlink" href="#chapter-4-configuring-procfs" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<section id="mount-options">
<h3>4.1 Mount options<a class="headerlink" href="#mount-options" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>The following mount options are supported:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><table class="docutils align-default">
<tbody>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>hidepid=</p></td>
<td><p>Set /proc/<pid>/ access mode.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>gid=</p></td>
<td><p>Set the group authorized to learn processes information.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>subset=</p></td>
<td><p>Show only the specified subset of procfs.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>pidns=</p></td>
<td><p>Specify a the namespace used by this procfs.</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div></blockquote>
<p>hidepid=off or hidepid=0 means classic mode - everybody may access all
/proc/<pid>/ directories (default).</p>
<p>hidepid=noaccess or hidepid=1 means users may not access any /proc/<pid>/
directories but their own. Sensitive files like cmdline, sched*, status are now
protected against other users. This makes it impossible to learn whether any
user runs specific program (given the program doesn’t reveal itself by its
behaviour). As an additional bonus, as /proc/<pid>/cmdline is unaccessible for
other users, poorly written programs passing sensitive information via program
arguments are now protected against local eavesdroppers.</p>
<p>hidepid=invisible or hidepid=2 means hidepid=1 plus all /proc/<pid>/ will be
fully invisible to other users. It doesn’t mean that it hides a fact whether a
process with a specific pid value exists (it can be learned by other means, e.g.
by “kill -0 $PID”), but it hides process’s uid and gid, which may be learned by
<code class="xref c c-func broken_xref docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">stat()</span></code>’ing /proc/<pid>/ otherwise. It greatly complicates an intruder’s task of
gathering information about running processes, whether some daemon runs with
elevated privileges, whether other user runs some sensitive program, whether
other users run any program at all, etc.</p>
<p>hidepid=ptraceable or hidepid=4 means that procfs should only contain
/proc/<pid>/ directories that the caller can ptrace.</p>
<p>gid= defines a group authorized to learn processes information otherwise
prohibited by hidepid=. If you use some daemon like identd which needs to learn
information about processes information, just add identd to this group.</p>
<p>subset=pid hides all top level files and directories in the procfs that
are not related to tasks.</p>
<p>pidns= specifies a pid namespace (either as a string path to something like
<cite>/proc/$pid/ns/pid</cite>, or a file descriptor when using <cite>FSCONFIG_SET_FD</cite>) that
will be used by the procfs instance when translating pids. By default, procfs
will use the calling process’s active pid namespace. Note that the pid
namespace of an existing procfs instance cannot be modified (attempting to do
so will give an <cite>-EBUSY</cite> error).</p>
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<h2>Chapter 5: Filesystem behavior<a class="headerlink" href="#chapter-5-filesystem-behavior" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Originally, before the advent of pid namespace, procfs was a global file
system. It means that there was only one procfs instance in the system.</p>
<p>When pid namespace was added, a separate procfs instance was mounted in
each pid namespace. So, procfs mount options are global among all
mountpoints within the same namespace:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># grep ^proc /proc/mounts
proc /proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=2 0 0
# strace -e mount mount -o hidepid=1 -t proc proc /tmp/proc
mount("proc", "/tmp/proc", "proc", 0, "hidepid=1") = 0
+++ exited with 0 +++
# grep ^proc /proc/mounts
proc /proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=2 0 0
proc /tmp/proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=2 0 0
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<p>and only after remounting procfs mount options will change at all
mountpoints:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># mount -o remount,hidepid=1 -t proc proc /tmp/proc
# grep ^proc /proc/mounts
proc /proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=1 0 0
proc /tmp/proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=1 0 0
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<p>This behavior is different from the behavior of other filesystems.</p>
<p>The new procfs behavior is more like other filesystems. Each procfs mount
creates a new procfs instance. Mount options affect own procfs instance.
It means that it became possible to have several procfs instances
displaying tasks with different filtering options in one pid namespace:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># mount -o hidepid=invisible -t proc proc /proc
# mount -o hidepid=noaccess -t proc proc /tmp/proc
# grep ^proc /proc/mounts
proc /proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=invisible 0 0
proc /tmp/proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=noaccess 0 0
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