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-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 c4de6359d440..faf62740aa2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |||
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: | |||
32 | - legacy_va_layout | 32 | - legacy_va_layout |
33 | - lowmem_reserve_ratio | 33 | - lowmem_reserve_ratio |
34 | - max_map_count | 34 | - max_map_count |
35 | - memory_failure_early_kill | ||
36 | - memory_failure_recovery | ||
35 | - min_free_kbytes | 37 | - min_free_kbytes |
36 | - min_slab_ratio | 38 | - min_slab_ratio |
37 | - min_unmapped_ratio | 39 | - min_unmapped_ratio |
@@ -53,7 +55,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: | |||
53 | - vfs_cache_pressure | 55 | - vfs_cache_pressure |
54 | - zone_reclaim_mode | 56 | - zone_reclaim_mode |
55 | 57 | ||
56 | |||
57 | ============================================================== | 58 | ============================================================== |
58 | 59 | ||
59 | block_dump | 60 | block_dump |
@@ -275,6 +276,44 @@ e.g., up to one or two maps per allocation. | |||
275 | 276 | ||
276 | The default value is 65536. | 277 | The default value is 65536. |
277 | 278 | ||
279 | ============================================================= | ||
280 | |||
281 | memory_failure_early_kill: | ||
282 | |||
283 | Control how to kill processes when uncorrected memory error (typically | ||
284 | a 2bit error in a memory module) is detected in the background by hardware | ||
285 | that cannot be handled by the kernel. In some cases (like the page | ||
286 | still having a valid copy on disk) the kernel will handle the failure | ||
287 | transparently without affecting any applications. But if there is | ||
288 | no other uptodate copy of the data it will kill to prevent any data | ||
289 | corruptions from propagating. | ||
290 | |||
291 | 1: Kill all processes that have the corrupted and not reloadable page mapped | ||
292 | as soon as the corruption is detected. Note this is not supported | ||
293 | for a few types of pages, like kernel internally allocated data or | ||
294 | the swap cache, but works for the majority of user pages. | ||
295 | |||
296 | 0: Only unmap the corrupted page from all processes and only kill a process | ||
297 | who tries to access it. | ||
298 | |||
299 | The kill is done using a catchable SIGBUS with BUS_MCEERR_AO, so processes can | ||
300 | handle this if they want to. | ||
301 | |||
302 | This is only active on architectures/platforms with advanced machine | ||
303 | check handling and depends on the hardware capabilities. | ||
304 | |||
305 | Applications can override this setting individually with the PR_MCE_KILL prctl | ||
306 | |||
307 | ============================================================== | ||
308 | |||
309 | memory_failure_recovery | ||
310 | |||
311 | Enable memory failure recovery (when supported by the platform) | ||
312 | |||
313 | 1: Attempt recovery. | ||
314 | |||
315 | 0: Always panic on a memory failure. | ||
316 | |||
278 | ============================================================== | 317 | ============================================================== |
279 | 318 | ||
280 | min_free_kbytes: | 319 | min_free_kbytes: |