Merge branch 'thinkpad-2.6.33' into release

[pandora-kernel.git] / Documentation / filesystems / proc.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 4af0018..220cc63 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Table of Contents
   3.3  /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields
   3.4  /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings
   3.5  /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts
+  3.6  /proc/<pid>/comm  & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm
 
 
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@@ -1089,8 +1090,8 @@ 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.
 
-The  "procs_running" line gives the  number of processes  currently running on
-CPUs.
+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).
 
 The   "procs_blocked" line gives  the  number of  processes currently blocked,
 waiting for I/O to complete.
@@ -1409,3 +1410,11 @@ For more information on mount propagation see:
 
   Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
 
+
+3.6    /proc/<pid>/comm  & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm
+--------------------------------------------------------
+These files provide a method to access a tasks 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) will result in a truncated
+comm value.