The patch titled procfs-allow-threads-to-rename-siblings-via-proc-pid-tasks-tid-comm-doc has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was procfs-allow-threads-to-rename-siblings-via-proc-pid-tasks-tid-comm-doc.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into procfs-allow-threads-to-rename-siblings-via-proc-pid-tasks-tid-comm.patch The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: procfs-allow-threads-to-rename-siblings-via-proc-pid-tasks-tid-comm-doc From: john stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> Add some documentation about /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm interface. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Fulton <fultonm@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sean Foley <Sean_Foley@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt~procfs-allow-threads-to-rename-siblings-via-proc-pid-tasks-tid-comm-doc Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt~procfs-allow-threads-to-rename-siblings-via-proc-pid-tasks-tid-comm-doc +++ a/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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -1409,3 +1410,11 @@ For more information on mount propagatio 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. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch procfs-allow-threads-to-rename-siblings-via-proc-pid-tasks-tid-comm.patch procfs-allow-threads-to-rename-siblings-via-proc-pid-tasks-tid-comm-doc.patch cs5535-add-a-generic-mfgpt-driver.patch cs5535-add-a-generic-mfgpt-driver-fix.patch cs5535-add-a-generic-clock-event-mfgpt-driver.patch cs5535-move-the-divil-msr-definition-into-linux-cs5535h.patch cs5535-move-vsa2-checks-into-linux-cs5535h.patch cs5535-define-lxfb-gxfb-msrs-in-linux-cs5535h.patch cs5535-drop-the-geode-specific-mfgpt-gpio-code.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html