[patch -mm 4/4] docs: Add documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> output

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: James Bottomley <jbottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt |   81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.git/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ linux-2.6.git/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Table of Contents
   3.5	/proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts
   3.6	/proc/<pid>/comm  & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm
   3.7   /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children - Information about task children
+  3.8   /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file
 
   4	Configuring procfs
   4.1	Mount options
@@ -1623,6 +1624,86 @@ pids, so one need to either stop or free
 if precise results are needed.
 
 
+3.7	/proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+This file provides information associated with an opened file. The regular
+files have at least two fields -- 'pos' and 'flags'. The 'pos' represents
+the current offset of the opened file in decimal form [see lseek(2) for
+details] and the 'flags' denotes octal O_xxx mask the file has been
+created with [see open(2) for details].
+
+A typical output is
+
+	pos:	0
+	flags:	0100002
+
+The files such as eventfd, fsnotify, signalfd, epoll among the regular pos/flags
+pair provide additional information peculiar to the objects they represent.
+
+	Eventfd files
+	~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+	pos:	0
+	flags:	04002
+	eventfd-count:	5a
+
+	where 'eventfd-count' is hex value of a counter.
+
+	Signalfd files
+	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+	pos:	0
+	flags:	04002
+	sigmask:	0000000000000200
+
+	where 'sigmask' is hex value of the signal mask associated
+	with a file.
+
+	Epoll files
+	~~~~~~~~~~~
+	pos:	0
+	flags:	02
+	tfd:        5 events:       1d data: ffffffffffffffff
+
+	where 'tfd' is a target file descriptor number in decimal form,
+	'events' is events mask being watched and the 'data' is data
+	associated with a target [see epoll(7) for more details].
+
+	Fsnotify files
+	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+	For inotify files the format is the following
+
+	pos:	0
+	flags:	02000000
+	inotify wd:3 ino:9e7e sdev:800013 mask:800afce ignored_mask:0 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:7e9e0000640d1b6d
+
+	where 'wd' is a watch descriptor in decimal form, ie a target file
+	descriptor number, 'ino' and 'sdev' are inode and device where the
+	target file lays on and the 'mask' is the mask of events, all in hex
+	form [see inotify(7) for more details].
+
+	In case if the kernel built with exportfs the path to the target file
+	is encoded as a file handle. The file handle provided by three fields
+	'fhandle-bytes', 'fhandle-type' and 'f_handle', all in hex format.
+
+	If the kernel is built without exportfs support the file handle won't be
+	printed out.
+
+	For fanotify files the format is the following
+
+	pos:	0
+	flags:	02
+	fanotify ino:2 sdev:800013 mask:1 ignored_mask:40000000 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:0200000000000000
+
+	or
+
+	pos:	0
+	flags:	02
+	fanotify mnt_id:13 mask:1 ignored_mask:40000000
+
+	where 'ino', 'sdev' are target inode and device, 'mnt_id' is the mount point identifier,
+	'mask' is the events mask used and 'ignored_mask' is the mask of events which are
+	to be ignored. All written in hex format.
+
+
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Configuring procfs
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/