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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-18 18:37:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-18 18:37:14 +0100 |
| commit | b2b062b8163391c42b3219d466ca1ac9742b9c7b (patch) | |
| tree | f3f920c09b8de694b1bc1d4b878cfd2b0b98c913 /Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | |
| parent | a9de18eb761f7c1c860964b2e5addc1a35c7e861 (diff) | |
| parent | 99937d6455cea95405ac681c86a857d0fcd530bd (diff) | |
Merge branch 'core/percpu' into stackprotector
Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h
arch/x86/include/asm/system.h
Also, moved include/asm-x86/stackprotector.h to arch/x86/include/asm.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index d79eeda7a69..a3415070bca 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -38,10 +38,12 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - numa_zonelist_order - nr_hugepages - nr_overcommit_hugepages +- nr_trim_pages (only if CONFIG_MMU=n) ============================================================== -dirty_ratio, dirty_background_ratio, dirty_expire_centisecs, +dirty_bytes, dirty_ratio, dirty_background_bytes, +dirty_background_ratio, dirty_expire_centisecs, dirty_writeback_centisecs, highmem_is_dirtyable, vfs_cache_pressure, laptop_mode, block_dump, swap_token_timeout, drop-caches, hugepages_treat_as_movable: @@ -347,3 +349,20 @@ Change the maximum size of the hugepage pool. The maximum is nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages. See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt + +============================================================== + +nr_trim_pages + +This is available only on NOMMU kernels. + +This value adjusts the excess page trimming behaviour of power-of-2 aligned +NOMMU mmap allocations. + +A value of 0 disables trimming of allocations entirely, while a value of 1 +trims excess pages aggressively. Any value >= 1 acts as the watermark where +trimming of allocations is initiated. + +The default value is 1. + +See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. |