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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-31 22:25:39 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-07-31 22:25:39 -0400 |
commit | ac694dbdbc403c00e2c14d10bc7b8412cc378259 (patch) | |
tree | e37328cfbeaf43716dd5914cad9179e57e84df76 /Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |
parent | a40a1d3d0a2fd613fdec6d89d3c053268ced76ed (diff) | |
parent | 437ea90cc3afdca5229b41c6b1d38c4842756cb9 (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge Andrew's second set of patches:
- MM
- a few random fixes
- a couple of RTC leftovers
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits)
rtc/rtc-88pm80x: remove unneed devm_kfree
rtc/rtc-88pm80x: assign ret only when rtc_register_driver fails
mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables
tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes
mm: remove redundant initialization
mm: warn if pg_data_t isn't initialized with zero
mips: zero out pg_data_t when it's allocated
memcg: gix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list
mm/sparse: remove index_init_lock
mm/sparse: more checks on mem_section number
mm/sparse: optimize sparse_index_alloc
memcg: add mem_cgroup_from_css() helper
memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages
memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages
mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU
mm: memcg: only check anon swapin page charges for swap cache
mm: memcg: only check swap cache pages for repeated charging
mm: memcg: split swapin charge function into private and public part
mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging
mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 30 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 96f0ee825bed..dcc2a94ae34e 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |||
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: | |||
42 | - mmap_min_addr | 42 | - mmap_min_addr |
43 | - nr_hugepages | 43 | - nr_hugepages |
44 | - nr_overcommit_hugepages | 44 | - nr_overcommit_hugepages |
45 | - nr_pdflush_threads | ||
46 | - nr_trim_pages (only if CONFIG_MMU=n) | 45 | - nr_trim_pages (only if CONFIG_MMU=n) |
47 | - numa_zonelist_order | 46 | - numa_zonelist_order |
48 | - oom_dump_tasks | 47 | - oom_dump_tasks |
@@ -426,16 +425,6 @@ See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | |||
426 | 425 | ||
427 | ============================================================== | 426 | ============================================================== |
428 | 427 | ||
429 | nr_pdflush_threads | ||
430 | |||
431 | The current number of pdflush threads. This value is read-only. | ||
432 | The value changes according to the number of dirty pages in the system. | ||
433 | |||
434 | When necessary, additional pdflush threads are created, one per second, up to | ||
435 | nr_pdflush_threads_max. | ||
436 | |||
437 | ============================================================== | ||
438 | |||
439 | nr_trim_pages | 428 | nr_trim_pages |
440 | 429 | ||
441 | This is available only on NOMMU kernels. | 430 | This is available only on NOMMU kernels. |
@@ -502,9 +491,10 @@ oom_dump_tasks | |||
502 | 491 | ||
503 | Enables a system-wide task dump (excluding kernel threads) to be | 492 | Enables a system-wide task dump (excluding kernel threads) to be |
504 | produced when the kernel performs an OOM-killing and includes such | 493 | produced when the kernel performs an OOM-killing and includes such |
505 | information as pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu, oom_adj score, and | 494 | information as pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, nr_ptes, swapents, |
506 | name. This is helpful to determine why the OOM killer was invoked | 495 | oom_score_adj score, and name. This is helpful to determine why the |
507 | and to identify the rogue task that caused it. | 496 | OOM killer was invoked, to identify the rogue task that caused it, |
497 | and to determine why the OOM killer chose the task it did to kill. | ||
508 | 498 | ||
509 | If this is set to zero, this information is suppressed. On very | 499 | If this is set to zero, this information is suppressed. On very |
510 | large systems with thousands of tasks it may not be feasible to dump | 500 | large systems with thousands of tasks it may not be feasible to dump |
@@ -574,16 +564,24 @@ of physical RAM. See above. | |||
574 | 564 | ||
575 | page-cluster | 565 | page-cluster |
576 | 566 | ||
577 | page-cluster controls the number of pages which are written to swap in | 567 | page-cluster controls the number of pages up to which consecutive pages |
578 | a single attempt. The swap I/O size. | 568 | are read in from swap in a single attempt. This is the swap counterpart |
569 | to page cache readahead. | ||
570 | The mentioned consecutivity is not in terms of virtual/physical addresses, | ||
571 | but consecutive on swap space - that means they were swapped out together. | ||
579 | 572 | ||
580 | It is a logarithmic value - setting it to zero means "1 page", setting | 573 | It is a logarithmic value - setting it to zero means "1 page", setting |
581 | it to 1 means "2 pages", setting it to 2 means "4 pages", etc. | 574 | it to 1 means "2 pages", setting it to 2 means "4 pages", etc. |
575 | Zero disables swap readahead completely. | ||
582 | 576 | ||
583 | The default value is three (eight pages at a time). There may be some | 577 | The default value is three (eight pages at a time). There may be some |
584 | small benefits in tuning this to a different value if your workload is | 578 | small benefits in tuning this to a different value if your workload is |
585 | swap-intensive. | 579 | swap-intensive. |
586 | 580 | ||
581 | Lower values mean lower latencies for initial faults, but at the same time | ||
582 | extra faults and I/O delays for following faults if they would have been part of | ||
583 | that consecutive pages readahead would have brought in. | ||
584 | |||
587 | ============================================================= | 585 | ============================================================= |
588 | 586 | ||
589 | panic_on_oom | 587 | panic_on_oom |