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@@ -317,13 +317,15 @@ for more than this value report a warning.
317This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. 317This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled.
318 318
3190: means infinite timeout - no checking done. 3190: means infinite timeout - no checking done.
320Possible values to set are in range {0..LONG_MAX/HZ}.
320 321
321============================================================== 322==============================================================
322 323
323hung_task_warning: 324hung_task_warnings:
324 325
325The maximum number of warnings to report. During a check interval 326The maximum number of warnings to report. During a check interval
326When this value is reached, no more the warnings will be reported. 327if a hung task is detected, this value is decreased by 1.
328When this value reaches 0, no more warnings will be reported.
327This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. 329This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled.
328 330
329-1: report an infinite number of warnings. 331-1: report an infinite number of warnings.
@@ -441,8 +443,7 @@ feature should be disabled. Otherwise, if the system overhead from the
441feature is too high then the rate the kernel samples for NUMA hinting 443feature is too high then the rate the kernel samples for NUMA hinting
442faults may be controlled by the numa_balancing_scan_period_min_ms, 444faults may be controlled by the numa_balancing_scan_period_min_ms,
443numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms, numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms, 445numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms, numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms,
444numa_balancing_scan_size_mb, numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls and 446numa_balancing_scan_size_mb, and numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls.
445numa_balancing_migrate_deferred.
446 447
447============================================================== 448==============================================================
448 449
@@ -483,13 +484,6 @@ rate for each task.
483numa_balancing_scan_size_mb is how many megabytes worth of pages are 484numa_balancing_scan_size_mb is how many megabytes worth of pages are
484scanned for a given scan. 485scanned for a given scan.
485 486
486numa_balancing_migrate_deferred is how many page migrations get skipped
487unconditionally, after a page migration is skipped because a page is shared
488with other tasks. This reduces page migration overhead, and determines
489how much stronger the "move task near its memory" policy scheduler becomes,
490versus the "move memory near its task" memory management policy, for workloads
491with shared memory.
492
493============================================================== 487==============================================================
494 488
495osrelease, ostype & version: 489osrelease, ostype & version:
@@ -792,6 +786,8 @@ can be ORed together:
7921024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded. 7861024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.
7932048 - The system is working around a severe firmware bug. 7872048 - The system is working around a severe firmware bug.
7944096 - An out-of-tree module has been loaded. 7884096 - An out-of-tree module has been loaded.
7898192 - An unsigned module has been loaded in a kernel supporting module
790 signature.
795 791
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797 793