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| author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> | 2020-08-11 18:31:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-12 10:57:56 -0700 |
| commit | b1aa7c9377bdff904efa0fbde1f96e1769730d8a (patch) | |
| tree | 992f73fbcf3502d956b98a2a938ea0a2861c74de /Documentation | |
| parent | de3f32e1424ca5c751d4cd78cbed6d17ca261c24 (diff) | |
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doc, mm: clarify /proc/<pid>/oom_score value range
The exported value includes oom_score_adj so the range is no [0, 1000] as
described in the previous section but rather [0, 2000]. Mention that fact
explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200709062603.18480-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index eb96a440a064..533c79e8d2cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -1676,6 +1676,9 @@ 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. +Please note that the exported value includes oom_score_adj so it is +effectively in range [0,2000]. + 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields ------------------------------------------------------- |