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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst index a321b84eccaa..9b7f65c3efd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst @@ -38,20 +38,25 @@ requests. ``aio-max-nr`` allows you to change the maximum value ``aio-max-nr`` does not result in the pre-allocation or re-sizing of any kernel data structures. +dentry-negative +---------------------------- + +Policy for negative dentries. Set to 1 to always delete the dentry when a +file is removed, and 0 to disable it. By default, this behavior is disabled. dentry-state ------------ -This file shows the values in ``struct dentry_stat``, as defined in -``linux/include/linux/dcache.h``:: +This file shows the values in ``struct dentry_stat_t``, as defined in +``fs/dcache.c``:: struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat { - int nr_dentry; - int nr_unused; - int age_limit; /* age in seconds */ - int want_pages; /* pages requested by system */ - int nr_negative; /* # of unused negative dentries */ - int dummy; /* Reserved for future use */ + long nr_dentry; + long nr_unused; + long age_limit; /* age in seconds */ + long want_pages; /* pages requested by system */ + long nr_negative; /* # of unused negative dentries */ + long dummy; /* Reserved for future use */ }; Dentries are dynamically allocated and deallocated. @@ -159,8 +164,8 @@ pipe-user-pages-soft -------------------- Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes -before the pipe size gets limited to a single page. Once this limit is reached, -new pipes will be limited to a single page in size for this user in order to +before the pipe size gets limited to two pages. Once this limit is reached, +new pipes will be limited to two pages in size for this user in order to limit total memory usage, and trying to increase them using ``fcntl()`` will be denied until usage goes below the limit again. The default value allows to allocate up to 1024 pipes at their default size. When set to 0, no limit is @@ -332,3 +337,38 @@ Each "watch" costs roughly 90 bytes on a 32-bit kernel, and roughly 160 bytes on a 64-bit one. The current default value for ``max_user_watches`` is 4% of the available low memory, divided by the "watch" cost in bytes. + +5. /proc/sys/fs/fuse - Configuration options for FUSE filesystems +===================================================================== + +This directory contains the following configuration options for FUSE +filesystems: + +``/proc/sys/fs/fuse/max_pages_limit`` is a read/write file for +setting/getting the maximum number of pages that can be used for servicing +requests in FUSE. + +``/proc/sys/fs/fuse/default_request_timeout`` is a read/write file for +setting/getting the default timeout (in seconds) for a fuse server to +reply to a kernel-issued request in the event where the server did not +specify a timeout at mount. If the server set a timeout, +then default_request_timeout will be ignored. The default +"default_request_timeout" is set to 0. 0 indicates no default timeout. +The maximum value that can be set is 65535. + +``/proc/sys/fs/fuse/max_request_timeout`` is a read/write file for +setting/getting the maximum timeout (in seconds) for a fuse server to +reply to a kernel-issued request. A value greater than 0 automatically opts +the server into a timeout that will be set to at most "max_request_timeout", +even if the server did not specify a timeout and default_request_timeout is +set to 0. If max_request_timeout is greater than 0 and the server set a timeout +greater than max_request_timeout or default_request_timeout is set to a value +greater than max_request_timeout, the system will use max_request_timeout as the +timeout. 0 indicates no max request timeout. The maximum value that can be set +is 65535. + +For timeouts, if the server does not respond to the request by the time +the set timeout elapses, then the connection to the fuse server will be aborted. +Please note that the timeouts are not 100% precise (eg you may set 60 seconds but +the timeout may kick in after 70 seconds). The upper margin of error for the +timeout is roughly FUSE_TIMEOUT_TIMER_FREQ seconds. |