linux-kernel - [PATCH -next] Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg

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Message-Id: <20210222034729.22350-1-rdunlap@infradead.org>
Date:   Sun, 21 Feb 2021 19:47:29 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -next] Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg

Address Jon's feedback on the previous patch by adding info about
field separators in the /proc/loadavg file.

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

--- linux-next-20210219.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ linux-next-20210219/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -691,6 +691,10 @@ files are there, and which are missing.
                 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
  locks        Kernel locks
  meminfo      Memory info
  misc         Miscellaneous