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@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ Table 1-4: Contents of the stat files (as of 2.6.30-rc7)
cgtime guest time of the task children in jiffies
..............................................................................
-The /proc/PID/map file containing the currently mapped memory regions and
+The /proc/PID/maps file containing the currently mapped memory regions and
their access permissions.
The format is:
@@ -565,6 +565,10 @@ The default_smp_affinity mask applies to all non-active IRQs, which are the
IRQs which have not yet been allocated/activated, and hence which lack a
/proc/irq/[0-9]* directory.
+The node file on an SMP system shows the node to which the device using the IRQ
+reports itself as being attached. This hardware locality information does not
+include information about any possible driver locality preference.
+
prof_cpu_mask specifies which CPUs are to be profiled by the system wide
profiler. Default value is ffffffff (all cpus).
@@ -964,7 +968,7 @@ your system and how much traffic was routed over those devices:
...] 1375103 17405 0 0 0 0 0 0
...] 1703981 5535 0 0 0 3 0 0
-In addition, each Channel Bond interface has it's own directory. For
+In addition, each Channel Bond interface has its own directory. For
example, the bond0 device will have a directory called /proc/net/bond0/.
It will contain information that is specific to that bond, such as the
current slaves of the bond, the link status of the slaves, and how
@@ -1361,7 +1365,7 @@ been accounted as having caused 1MB of write.
In other words: The number of bytes which this process caused to not happen,
by truncating pagecache. A task can cause "negative" IO too. If this task
truncates some dirty pagecache, some IO which another task has been accounted
-for (in it's write_bytes) will not be happening. We _could_ just subtract that
+for (in its write_bytes) will not be happening. We _could_ just subtract that
from the truncating task's write_bytes, but there is information loss in doing
that.