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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-29 19:12:44 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-29 19:12:44 -0800
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Mergr misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "28 fixes" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (28 commits) fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c: change put_page/unlock_page order in hugetlbfs_fallocate() mm/hugetlb: fix NULL-pointer dereference on 5-level paging machine autofs: revert "autofs: fix AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT not being honored" autofs: revert "autofs: take more care to not update last_used on path walk" fs/fat/inode.c: fix sb_rdonly() change mm, memcg: fix mem_cgroup_swapout() for THPs mm: migrate: fix an incorrect call of prep_transhuge_page() kmemleak: add scheduling point to kmemleak_scan() scripts/bloat-o-meter: don't fail with division by 0 fs/mbcache.c: make count_objects() more robust Revert "mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical" mm/madvise.c: fix madvise() infinite loop under special circumstances exec: avoid RLIMIT_STACK races with prlimit() IB/core: disable memory registration of filesystem-dax vmas v4l2: disable filesystem-dax mapping support mm: fail get_vaddr_frames() for filesystem-dax mappings mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm device-dax: implement ->split() to catch invalid munmap attempts mm, hugetlbfs: introduce ->split() to vm_operations_struct scripts/faddr2line: extend usage on generic arch ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index b920423f88cb..5025ff9307e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -158,10 +158,6 @@ Note: the minimum value allowed for dirty_bytes is two pages (in bytes); any
value lower than this limit will be ignored and the old configuration will be
retained.
-Note: the value of dirty_bytes also must be set greater than
-dirty_background_bytes or the amount of memory corresponding to
-dirty_background_ratio.
-
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dirty_expire_centisecs
@@ -181,9 +177,6 @@ generating disk writes will itself start writing out dirty data.
The total available memory is not equal to total system memory.
-Note: dirty_ratio must be set greater than dirty_background_ratio or
-ratio corresponding to dirty_background_bytes.
-
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dirty_writeback_centisecs