Add text noting that since kernel 2.6.16, /proc/slabinfo is

only available if CONFIG_SLAB is enabled.
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Michael Kerrisk 2007-09-27 18:27:13 +00:00
parent 56e0e87ff5
commit 350038ffb0
2 changed files with 13 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
.\" to see what information could be imported from that file
.\" into this file.
.\"
.TH PROC 5 2007-08-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH PROC 5 2007-09-30 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
proc \- process information pseudo-filesystem
.SH DESCRIPTION
@ -1021,7 +1021,11 @@ same process.
.TP
.I /proc/slabinfo
Information about kernel caches.
The columns are:
Since Linux 2.6.16 this file is only present if the CONFIG_SLAB kernel
configuration option is enabled.
The columns in
.I /proc/slabinfo
are:
.nf
cache-name
num-active-objs

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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
.\"
.TH SLABINFO 5 2001-06-19 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH SLABINFO 5 2007-09-30 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
/proc/slabinfo \- Kernel slab allocator statistics
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ and the number of pages per slab are given.
Note that because of object alignment and slab cache overhead,
objects are not normally packed tightly into pages.
Pages with
even one in-use object are considered in-use and cannot be
Pages with even one in-use object are considered in-use and cannot be
freed.
Kernels compiled with slab cache statistics will also have
@ -114,3 +113,8 @@ echo "\fIcache_name limit batchcount\fP" > /proc/slabinfo
.I /proc/slabinfo
exists since Linux 2.1.23.
SMP per-CPU caches exist since Linux 2.4.0-test3.
.SH NOTES
Since Linux 2.6.16 the file
.I /proc/slabinfo
is only present if the CONFIG_SLAB kernel
configuration option is enabled.