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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst | 73 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst | 20 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst index 599bcde7f0b7..ac87eafdb54f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst @@ -1,67 +1,34 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ + ================================ Documentation for /proc/sys/abi/ ================================ -kernel version 2.6.0.test2 +.. See scripts/check-sysctl-docs to keep this up to date: +.. scripts/check-sysctl-docs -vtable="abi" \ +.. Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst \ +.. $(git grep -l register_sysctl_) -Copyright (c) 2003, Fabian Frederick <ffrederick@users.sourceforge.net> +Copyright (c) 2020, Stephen Kitt -For general info: index.rst. +For general info, see :doc:`index`. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -This path is binary emulation relevant aka personality types aka abi. -When a process is executed, it's linked to an exec_domain whose -personality is defined using values available from /proc/sys/abi. -You can find further details about abi in include/linux/personality.h. - -Here are the files featuring in 2.6 kernel: - -- defhandler_coff -- defhandler_elf -- defhandler_lcall7 -- defhandler_libcso -- fake_utsname -- trace - -defhandler_coff ---------------- - -defined value: - PER_SCOSVR3:: - - 0x0003 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | WHOLE_SECONDS | SHORT_INODE - -defhandler_elf --------------- - -defined value: - PER_LINUX:: - - 0 - -defhandler_lcall7 ------------------ - -defined value : - PER_SVR4:: - - 0x0001 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, - -defhandler_libsco ------------------ - -defined value: - PER_SVR4:: +The files in ``/proc/sys/abi`` can be used to see and modify +ABI-related settings. - 0x0001 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, +Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration) +show up in ``/proc/sys/kernel``: -fake_utsname ------------- +.. contents:: :local: -Unused +vsyscall32 (x86) +================ -trace ------ +Determines whether the kernels maps a vDSO page into 32-bit processes; +can be set to 1 to enable, or 0 to disable. Defaults to enabled if +``CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO`` is set, disabled otherwide. -Unused +This controls the same setting as the ``vdso32`` kernel boot +parameter. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst index 42cd04bca548..57fd6ce68fe0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst @@ -300,7 +300,6 @@ Note: 0: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 RSS hash key: 84:50:f4:00:a8:15:d1:a7:e9:7f:1d:60:35:c7:47:25:42:97:74:ca:56:bb:b6:a1:d8:43:e3:c9:0c:fd:17:55:c2:3a:4d:69:ed:f1:42:89 - netdev_tstamp_prequeue ---------------------- @@ -321,11 +320,20 @@ fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net ---------------------------- Controls if fallback tunnels (like tunl0, gre0, gretap0, erspan0, -sit0, ip6tnl0, ip6gre0) are automatically created when a new -network namespace is created, if corresponding tunnel is present -in initial network namespace. -If set to 1, these devices are not automatically created, and -user space is responsible for creating them if needed. +sit0, ip6tnl0, ip6gre0) are automatically created. There are 3 possibilities +(a) value = 0; respective fallback tunnels are created when module is +loaded in every net namespaces (backward compatible behavior). +(b) value = 1; [kcmd value: initns] respective fallback tunnels are +created only in init net namespace and every other net namespace will +not have them. +(c) value = 2; [kcmd value: none] fallback tunnels are not created +when a module is loaded in any of the net namespace. Setting value to +"2" is pointless after boot if these modules are built-in, so there is +a kernel command-line option that can change this default. Please refer to +Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for additional details. + +Not creating fallback tunnels gives control to userspace to create +whatever is needed only and avoid creating devices which are redundant. Default : 0 (for compatibility reasons) |