linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] coredump: documentation for proc entry

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Date:	Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:51:55 +0900
From:	"Kawai, Hidehiro" <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"Kawai, Hidehiro" <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@...achi.com>,
	Satoshi OSHIMA <soshima@...hat.com>,
	Hideo AOKI <haoki@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] coredump: documentation for proc entry

This patch adds the documentation for
/proc/<pid>/coredump_omit_anonymous_shared.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |   38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 38 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.20-mm2/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20-mm2.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ linux-2.6.20-mm2/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Table of Contents
   2.11	/proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem
   2.12	/proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score
   2.13	/proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score
+  2.14	/proc/<pid>/coredump_omit_anonymous_shared - Core dump coordinator
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Preface
@@ -1982,6 +1983,43 @@ This file can be used to check the curre
 any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_adj to tune which
 process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation.
 
+2.14 /proc/<pid>/coredump_omit_anonymous_shared - Core dump coordinator
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+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.
+
+The /proc/<pid>/coredump_omit_anonymous_shared is a flag which enables you to
+omit anonymous shared memory segments from a core file when it is generated.
+When the <pid> process is dumped, the core dump routine decides whether a
+given memory segment should be dumped into a core file or not based on the
+type of the memory segment and the flag.
+
+If you have written a non-zero value to this proc file, anonymous shared
+memory segments are not dumped. There are three types of anonymous shared
+memory:
+
+  - IPC shared memory
+  - the memory segments created by mmap(2) with MAP_ANONYMOUS and MAP_SHARED
+    flags
+  - the memory segments created by mmap(2) with MAP_SHARED flag, and the
+    mapped file has already been unlinked
+
+Because current core dump routine doesn't distinguish these segments, you can
+only choose either dumping all anonymous shared memory segments or not.
+
+If you don't want to dump all shared memory segments attached to pid 1234,
+write 0 to the process's proc file.
+
+  $ echo 1 > /proc/1234/coredump_omit_anonymous_shared
+
+When a new process is created, the process inherits the flag status from its
+parent. It is useful to set the flag before the program runs.
+For example:
+
+  $ echo 1 > /proc/self/coredump_omit_anonymous_shared
+  $ ./some_program
+
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 Summary
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