The "procs_blocked" line gives the number of processes currently blocked,
waiting for I/O to complete.
+
1.9 Ext4 file system parameters
------------------------------
-Ext4 file system have one directory per partition under /proc/fs/ext4/
-# ls /proc/fs/ext4/hdc/
-group_prealloc max_to_scan mb_groups mb_history min_to_scan order2_req
-stats stream_req
-
-mb_groups:
-This file gives the details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
-
-mb_history:
-Multiblock allocation history.
-
-stats:
-This file indicate whether the multiblock allocator should start collecting
-statistics. The statistics are shown during unmount
-
-group_prealloc:
-The multiblock allocator normalize the block allocation request to
-group_prealloc filesystem blocks if we don't have strip value set.
-The stripe value can be specified at mount time or during mke2fs.
-
-max_to_scan:
-How long multiblock allocator can look for a best extent (in found extents)
-
-min_to_scan:
-How long multiblock allocator must look for a best extent
-
-order2_req:
-Multiblock allocator use 2^N search using buddies only for requests greater
-than or equal to order2_req. The request size is specfied in file system
-blocks. A value of 2 indicate only if the requests are greater than or equal
-to 4 blocks.
-
-stream_req:
-Files smaller than stream_req are served by the stream allocator, whose
-purpose is to pack requests as close each to other as possible to
-produce smooth I/O traffic. Avalue of 16 indicate that file smaller than 16
-filesystem block size will use group based preallocation.
+
+Information about mounted ext4 file systems can be found in
+/proc/fs/ext4. Each mounted filesystem will have a directory in
+/proc/fs/ext4 based on its device name (i.e., /proc/fs/ext4/hdc or
+/proc/fs/ext4/dm-0). The files in each per-device directory are shown
+in Table 1-10, below.
+
+Table 1-10: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname>
+..............................................................................
+ File Content
+ mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
+ mb_history multiblock allocation history
+ stats controls whether the multiblock allocator should start
+ collecting statistics, which are shown during the unmount
+ group_prealloc the multiblock allocator will round up allocation
+ requests to a multiple of this tuning parameter if the
+ stripe size is not set in the ext4 superblock
+ max_to_scan The maximum number of extents the multiblock allocator
+ will search to find the best extent
+ min_to_scan The minimum number of extents the multiblock allocator
+ will search to find the best extent
+ order2_req Tuning parameter which controls the minimum size for
+ requests (as a power of 2) where the buddy cache is
+ used
+ stream_req Files which have fewer blocks than this tunable
+ parameter will have their blocks allocated out of a
+ block group specific preallocation pool, so that small
+ files are packed closely together. Each large file
+ will have its blocks allocated out of its own unique
+ preallocation pool.
+inode_readahead Tuning parameter which controls the maximum number of
+ inode table blocks that ext4's inode table readahead
+ algorithm will pre-read into the buffer cache
+..............................................................................
+
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI
watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize.
- maps_protect
- ------------
-
- Enables/Disables the protection of the per-process proc entries "maps" and
- "smaps". When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to
- readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process.
-
msgmni
------
extern int sysctl_drop_caches;
extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
extern int compat_log;
- extern int maps_protect;
extern int latencytop_enabled;
extern int sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max;
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST
extern int sg_big_buff;
#endif
-#ifdef __sparc__
-extern char reboot_command [];
-extern int stop_a_enabled;
-extern int scons_pwroff;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARC
+#include <asm/system.h>
#endif
#ifdef __hppa__
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
-#ifdef __sparc__
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARC
{
.ctl_name = KERN_SPARC_REBOOT,
.procname = "reboot-cmd",
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
},
- #endif
- #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
- {
- .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
- .procname = "maps_protect",
- .data = &maps_protect,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
- .mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
- },
#endif
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,