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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt')
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1 files changed, 45 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index e55124e7c40..c14374e7177 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -75,8 +75,10 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - shmall - shmmax [ sysv ipc ] - shmmni +- softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace - stop-a [ SPARC only ] - sysrq ==> Documentation/sysrq.txt +- sysctl_writes_strict - tainted - threads-max - unknown_nmi_panic @@ -317,13 +319,15 @@ for more than this value report a warning. This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. 0: means infinite timeout - no checking done. +Possible values to set are in range {0..LONG_MAX/HZ}. ============================================================== -hung_task_warning: +hung_task_warnings: The maximum number of warnings to report. During a check interval -When this value is reached, no more the warnings will be reported. +if a hung task is detected, this value is decreased by 1. +When this value reaches 0, no more warnings will be reported. This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. -1: report an infinite number of warnings. @@ -441,8 +445,7 @@ feature should be disabled. Otherwise, if the system overhead from the feature is too high then the rate the kernel samples for NUMA hinting faults may be controlled by the numa_balancing_scan_period_min_ms, numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms, numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms, -numa_balancing_scan_size_mb, numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls and -numa_balancing_migrate_deferred. +numa_balancing_scan_size_mb, and numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls. ============================================================== @@ -483,13 +486,6 @@ rate for each task. numa_balancing_scan_size_mb is how many megabytes worth of pages are scanned for a given scan. -numa_balancing_migrate_deferred is how many page migrations get skipped -unconditionally, after a page migration is skipped because a page is shared -with other tasks. This reduces page migration overhead, and determines -how much stronger the "move task near its memory" policy scheduler becomes, -versus the "move memory near its task" memory management policy, for workloads -with shared memory. - ============================================================== osrelease, ostype & version: @@ -768,6 +764,42 @@ without users and with a dead originative process will be destroyed. ============================================================== +sysctl_writes_strict: + +Control how file position affects the behavior of updating sysctl values +via the /proc/sys interface: + + -1 - Legacy per-write sysctl value handling, with no printk warnings. + Each write syscall must fully contain the sysctl value to be + written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor + will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position. + 0 - (default) Same behavior as above, but warn about processes that + perform writes to a sysctl file descriptor when the file position + is not 0. + 1 - Respect file position when writing sysctl strings. Multiple writes + will append to the sysctl value buffer. Anything past the max length + of the sysctl value buffer will be ignored. Writes to numeric sysctl + entries must always be at file position 0 and the value must be + fully contained in the buffer sent in the write syscall. + +============================================================== + +softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace: + +This value controls the soft lockup detector thread's behavior +when a soft lockup condition is detected as to whether or not +to gather further debug information. If enabled, each cpu will +be issued an NMI and instructed to capture stack trace. + +This feature is only applicable for architectures which support +NMI. + +0: do nothing. This is the default behavior. + +1: on detection capture more debug information. + +============================================================== + tainted: Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which @@ -792,6 +824,8 @@ can be ORed together: 1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded. 2048 - The system is working around a severe firmware bug. 4096 - An out-of-tree module has been loaded. +8192 - An unsigned module has been loaded in a kernel supporting module + signature. ============================================================== |