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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index f00bee144add..8b9cd8eb3f91 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1648,18 +1648,21 @@ pids, so one need to either stop or freeze processes being inspected
if precise results are needed.
-3.7 /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file
+3.8 /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> - Information about opened file
---------------------------------------------------------------
This file provides information associated with an opened file. The regular
-files have at least two fields -- 'pos' and 'flags'. The 'pos' represents
-the current offset of the opened file in decimal form [see lseek(2) for
-details] and 'flags' denotes the octal O_xxx mask the file has been
-created with [see open(2) for details].
+files have at least three fields -- 'pos', 'flags' and mnt_id. The 'pos'
+represents the current offset of the opened file in decimal form [see lseek(2)
+for details], 'flags' denotes the octal O_xxx mask the file has been
+created with [see open(2) for details] and 'mnt_id' represents mount ID of
+the file system containing the opened file [see 3.5 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
+for details].
A typical output is
pos: 0
flags: 0100002
+ mnt_id: 19
The files such as eventfd, fsnotify, signalfd, epoll among the regular pos/flags
pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
@@ -1668,6 +1671,7 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
pos: 0
flags: 04002
+ mnt_id: 9
eventfd-count: 5a
where 'eventfd-count' is hex value of a counter.
@@ -1676,6 +1680,7 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
pos: 0
flags: 04002
+ mnt_id: 9
sigmask: 0000000000000200
where 'sigmask' is hex value of the signal mask associated
@@ -1685,6 +1690,7 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
~~~~~~~~~~~
pos: 0
flags: 02
+ mnt_id: 9
tfd: 5 events: 1d data: ffffffffffffffff
where 'tfd' is a target file descriptor number in decimal form,
@@ -1718,6 +1724,7 @@ pair provide additional information particular to the objects they represent.
pos: 0
flags: 02
+ mnt_id: 9
fanotify flags:10 event-flags:0
fanotify mnt_id:12 mflags:40 mask:38 ignored_mask:40000003
fanotify ino:4f969 sdev:800013 mflags:0 mask:3b ignored_mask:40000000 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:69f90400c275b5b4