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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-17 12:52:15 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-17 12:56:49 +0200
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Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig arch/x86/kernel/traps.c arch/x86/power/cpu.c arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c kernel/Makefile Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, move from put_cpu_no_sched() to put_cpu() in arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt27
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index f11ca7979fa6..322a00bb99d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- kstack_depth_to_print [ X86 only ]
- l2cr [ PPC only ]
- modprobe ==> Documentation/debugging-modules.txt
+- modules_disabled
- msgmax
- msgmnb
- msgmni
@@ -184,6 +185,16 @@ kernel stack.
==============================================================
+modules_disabled:
+
+A toggle value indicating if modules are allowed to be loaded
+in an otherwise modular kernel. This toggle defaults to off
+(0), but can be set true (1). Once true, modules can be
+neither loaded nor unloaded, and the toggle cannot be set back
+to false.
+
+==============================================================
+
osrelease, ostype & version:
# cat osrelease
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index c302ddf629a0..c4de6359d440 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -233,8 +233,8 @@ These protections are added to score to judge whether this zone should be used
for page allocation or should be reclaimed.
In this example, if normal pages (index=2) are required to this DMA zone and
-pages_high is used for watermark, the kernel judges this zone should not be
-used because pages_free(1355) is smaller than watermark + protection[2]
+watermark[WMARK_HIGH] is used for watermark, the kernel judges this zone should
+not be used because pages_free(1355) is smaller than watermark + protection[2]
(4 + 2004 = 2008). If this protection value is 0, this zone would be used for
normal page requirement. If requirement is DMA zone(index=0), protection[0]
(=0) is used.
@@ -280,9 +280,10 @@ The default value is 65536.
min_free_kbytes:
This is used to force the Linux VM to keep a minimum number
-of kilobytes free. The VM uses this number to compute a pages_min
-value for each lowmem zone in the system. Each lowmem zone gets
-a number of reserved free pages based proportionally on its size.
+of kilobytes free. The VM uses this number to compute a
+watermark[WMARK_MIN] value for each lowmem zone in the system.
+Each lowmem zone gets a number of reserved free pages based
+proportionally on its size.
Some minimal amount of memory is needed to satisfy PF_MEMALLOC
allocations; if you set this to lower than 1024KB, your system will
@@ -314,10 +315,14 @@ min_unmapped_ratio:
This is available only on NUMA kernels.
-A percentage of the total pages in each zone. Zone reclaim will only
-occur if more than this percentage of pages are file backed and unmapped.
-This is to insure that a minimal amount of local pages is still available for
-file I/O even if the node is overallocated.
+This is a percentage of the total pages in each zone. Zone reclaim will
+only occur if more than this percentage of pages are in a state that
+zone_reclaim_mode allows to be reclaimed.
+
+If zone_reclaim_mode has the value 4 OR'd, then the percentage is compared
+against all file-backed unmapped pages including swapcache pages and tmpfs
+files. Otherwise, only unmapped pages backed by normal files but not tmpfs
+files and similar are considered.
The default is 1 percent.
@@ -358,7 +363,7 @@ nr_pdflush_threads
The current number of pdflush threads. This value is read-only.
The value changes according to the number of dirty pages in the system.
-When neccessary, additional pdflush threads are created, one per second, up to
+When necessary, additional pdflush threads are created, one per second, up to
nr_pdflush_threads_max.
==============================================================
@@ -565,7 +570,7 @@ swappiness
This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap
memory pages. Higher values will increase agressiveness, lower values
-descrease the amount of swap.
+decrease the amount of swap.
The default value is 60.