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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index e55124e7c40c..9886c3d57fc2 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | |||
@@ -317,13 +317,15 @@ for more than this value report a warning. | |||
317 | This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. | 317 | This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. |
318 | 318 | ||
319 | 0: means infinite timeout - no checking done. | 319 | 0: means infinite timeout - no checking done. |
320 | Possible values to set are in range {0..LONG_MAX/HZ}. | ||
320 | 321 | ||
321 | ============================================================== | 322 | ============================================================== |
322 | 323 | ||
323 | hung_task_warning: | 324 | hung_task_warnings: |
324 | 325 | ||
325 | The maximum number of warnings to report. During a check interval | 326 | The maximum number of warnings to report. During a check interval |
326 | When this value is reached, no more the warnings will be reported. | 327 | if a hung task is detected, this value is decreased by 1. |
328 | When this value reaches 0, no more warnings will be reported. | ||
327 | This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. | 329 | This 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 | |||
441 | feature is too high then the rate the kernel samples for NUMA hinting | 443 | feature is too high then the rate the kernel samples for NUMA hinting |
442 | faults may be controlled by the numa_balancing_scan_period_min_ms, | 444 | faults may be controlled by the numa_balancing_scan_period_min_ms, |
443 | numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms, numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms, | 445 | numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms, numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms, |
444 | numa_balancing_scan_size_mb, numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls and | 446 | numa_balancing_scan_size_mb, and numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls. |
445 | numa_balancing_migrate_deferred. | ||
446 | 447 | ||
447 | ============================================================== | 448 | ============================================================== |
448 | 449 | ||
@@ -483,13 +484,6 @@ rate for each task. | |||
483 | numa_balancing_scan_size_mb is how many megabytes worth of pages are | 484 | numa_balancing_scan_size_mb is how many megabytes worth of pages are |
484 | scanned for a given scan. | 485 | scanned for a given scan. |
485 | 486 | ||
486 | numa_balancing_migrate_deferred is how many page migrations get skipped | ||
487 | unconditionally, after a page migration is skipped because a page is shared | ||
488 | with other tasks. This reduces page migration overhead, and determines | ||
489 | how much stronger the "move task near its memory" policy scheduler becomes, | ||
490 | versus the "move memory near its task" memory management policy, for workloads | ||
491 | with shared memory. | ||
492 | |||
493 | ============================================================== | 487 | ============================================================== |
494 | 488 | ||
495 | osrelease, ostype & version: | 489 | osrelease, ostype & version: |
@@ -792,6 +786,8 @@ can be ORed together: | |||
792 | 1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded. | 786 | 1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded. |
793 | 2048 - The system is working around a severe firmware bug. | 787 | 2048 - The system is working around a severe firmware bug. |
794 | 4096 - An out-of-tree module has been loaded. | 788 | 4096 - An out-of-tree module has been loaded. |
789 | 8192 - An unsigned module has been loaded in a kernel supporting module | ||
790 | signature. | ||
795 | 791 | ||
796 | ============================================================== | 792 | ============================================================== |
797 | 793 | ||