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[PATCH v3 2/2] Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: Add more description for maps/smaps

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Add some more description on the limitations for smaps/maps readings, as well
as some guaruntees we can make.

Signed-off-by: Robert Ho <robert.hu@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 68080ad..90eabc7 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -515,6 +515,14 @@ be vanished or the reverse -- new added.
 This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is
 enabled.
 
+Note: for both /proc/PID/maps and /proc/PID/smaps readings, it's
+possible in race conditions, that the mappings printed may not be that
+up-to-date, because during each read walking, the task's mappings may have
+changed, this typically happens in multithread cases. But anyway in each single
+read these can be guarunteed: 1) the mapped addresses doesn't go backward; 2) no
+overlaps 3) if there is something at a given vaddr during the entirety of the
+life of the smaps/maps walk, there will be some output for it.
+
 The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG
 bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the
 soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for details).
-- 
1.8.3.1

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[PATCH v3 1/2] mm, proc: Fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps Robert Ho <robert.hu@intel.com> - 2016-09-23 15:20 +0200
  [PATCH v3 2/2] Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: Add more description for maps/smaps Robert Ho <robert.hu@intel.com> - 2016-09-23 15:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: Add more  description for maps/smaps Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-09-23 18:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm, proc: Fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-09-23 16:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm, proc: Fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-09-23 16:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm, proc: Fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-09-23 16:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm, proc: Fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-09-23 17:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm, proc: Fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-09-23 18:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm, proc: Fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-09-26 10:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm, proc: Fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-09-29 15:50 +0200

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