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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -0700 |
commit | db16826367fefcb0ddb93d76b66adc52eb4e6339 (patch) | |
tree | 626224c1eb1eb79c522714591f208b4fdbdcd9d4 /Documentation/sysctl | |
parent | cd6045138ed1bb5d8773e940d51c34318eef3ef2 (diff) | |
parent | 465fdd97cbe16ef8727221857e96ef62dd352017 (diff) |
Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 41 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index e6fb1ec2744..a6e360d2055 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - legacy_va_layout - lowmem_reserve_ratio - max_map_count +- memory_failure_early_kill +- memory_failure_recovery - min_free_kbytes - min_slab_ratio - min_unmapped_ratio @@ -53,7 +55,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - vfs_cache_pressure - zone_reclaim_mode - ============================================================== block_dump @@ -275,6 +276,44 @@ e.g., up to one or two maps per allocation. The default value is 65536. +============================================================= + +memory_failure_early_kill: + +Control how to kill processes when uncorrected memory error (typically +a 2bit error in a memory module) is detected in the background by hardware +that cannot be handled by the kernel. In some cases (like the page +still having a valid copy on disk) the kernel will handle the failure +transparently without affecting any applications. But if there is +no other uptodate copy of the data it will kill to prevent any data +corruptions from propagating. + +1: Kill all processes that have the corrupted and not reloadable page mapped +as soon as the corruption is detected. Note this is not supported +for a few types of pages, like kernel internally allocated data or +the swap cache, but works for the majority of user pages. + +0: Only unmap the corrupted page from all processes and only kill a process +who tries to access it. + +The kill is done using a catchable SIGBUS with BUS_MCEERR_AO, so processes can +handle this if they want to. + +This is only active on architectures/platforms with advanced machine +check handling and depends on the hardware capabilities. + +Applications can override this setting individually with the PR_MCE_KILL prctl + +============================================================== + +memory_failure_recovery + +Enable memory failure recovery (when supported by the platform) + +1: Attempt recovery. + +0: Always panic on a memory failure. + ============================================================== min_free_kbytes: |