Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg

Address Jon's feedback on the previous patch by adding info about
field separators in the /proc/loadavg file.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210222034729.22350-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 9abdba17565e6c3ac88fe751afe2538a48868506..604567813482d2e53898c13fd4440ad987981a2c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -691,6 +691,10 @@ files are there, and which are missing.
                 number of processes currently runnable (running or on ready queue);
                 total number of processes in system;
                 last pid created.
+                All fields are separated by one space except "number of
+                processes currently runnable" and "total number of processes
+                in system", which are separated by a slash ('/'). Example:
+                  0.61 0.61 0.55 3/828 22084
  locks        Kernel locks
  meminfo      Memory info
  misc         Miscellaneous