linux-kernel - [PATCH] Documentation: /proc/loadavg: add 3 more field descriptions

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Message-ID: <fe55b139-bd03-4762-199b-83be873cf7dd@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 2 Feb 2021 19:32:43 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: /proc/loadavg: add 3 more field descriptions

From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Update contents of /proc/loadavg: add 3 more fields.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-next-20210202.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ linux-next-20210202/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -687,7 +687,10 @@ files are there, and which are missing.
  kcore        Kernel core image (can be ELF or A.OUT(deprecated in 2.4))
  kmsg         Kernel messages
  ksyms        Kernel symbol table
- loadavg      Load average of last 1, 5 & 15 minutes
+ loadavg      Load average of last 1, 5 & 15 minutes;
+                number of processes currently runnable (running or on ready queue);
+                total number of processes in system;
+                last pid created.
  locks        Kernel locks
  meminfo      Memory info
  misc         Miscellaneous