m-subharmonic functions are the right class of admissible solutions to the complex Hessian equation. In this paper, we generalize the definition of the complex Hessian operator to some unbounded m-subharmonic functions, and we prove that the complex Hessian operator is continuous on the monotonically decreasing sequences of m-subharmonic functions. Moreover we establish the Lelong-Jensen type formula and introduce the Lelong number for m-subharmonic functions. A useful inequality for the mixed Hessian operator is showed.