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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 32 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 8 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 19224eeac1c2..c04e6b8eb2b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -1014,30 +1014,26 @@ perf_user_access (arm64 and riscv only) Controls user space access for reading perf event counters. -arm64 -===== - -The default value is 0 (access disabled). +* for arm64 + The default value is 0 (access disabled). -When set to 1, user space can read performance monitor counter registers -directly. + When set to 1, user space can read performance monitor counter registers + directly. -See Documentation/arch/arm64/perf.rst for more information. - -riscv -===== + See Documentation/arch/arm64/perf.rst for more information. -When set to 0, user space access is disabled. +* for riscv + When set to 0, user space access is disabled. -The default value is 1, user space can read performance monitor counter -registers through perf, any direct access without perf intervention will trigger -an illegal instruction. + The default value is 1, user space can read performance monitor counter + registers through perf, any direct access without perf intervention will trigger + an illegal instruction. -When set to 2, which enables legacy mode (user space has direct access to cycle -and insret CSRs only). Note that this legacy value is deprecated and will be -removed once all user space applications are fixed. + When set to 2, which enables legacy mode (user space has direct access to cycle + and insret CSRs only). Note that this legacy value is deprecated and will be + removed once all user space applications are fixed. -Note that the time CSR is always directly accessible to all modes. + Note that the time CSR is always directly accessible to all modes. pid_max ======= diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index 9bef46151d53..4d71211fdad8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -465,8 +465,8 @@ The minimum value is 1 (1/1 -> 100%). The value less than 1 completely disables protection of the pages. -max_map_count: -============== +max_map_count +============= This file contains the maximum number of memory map areas a process may have. Memory map areas are used as a side-effect of calling @@ -495,8 +495,8 @@ memory allocations. The default value depends on CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT. -memory_failure_early_kill: -========================== +memory_failure_early_kill +========================= Control how to kill processes when uncorrected memory error (typically a 2bit error in a memory module) is detected in the background by hardware |