doc, mm: clarify /proc/<pid>/oom_score value range

The exported value includes oom_score_adj so the range is no [0, 1000] as described in the previous section but rather [0, 2000]. Mention that fact explicitly. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Yafang Shao <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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@@ -1676,6 +1676,9 @@ This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer for
 any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj to tune which
 process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation.
 
+Please note that the exported value includes oom_score_adj so it is
+effectively in range [0,2000].
+
 
 3.3  /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields
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