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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-01-18 09:17:17 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-01-18 09:17:17 -0800 |
| commit | cbf50a4125f5242dd70b1f2342dbba2d94c6d94e (patch) | |
| tree | a97a067e53f32e246034fbbb07e2c0894c279391 /Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | |
| parent | 7a8ea7ebe4cf698918e7d3c860587e815eaa0f28 (diff) | |
| parent | 7d1f9aeff1ee4a20b1aeb377dd0f579fe9647619 (diff) | |
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Merge 3.8-rc4 into usb-next
This pulls in all of the -rc4 fixes into usb-next to sync things up.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 2907ba6..ccd4258 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - l2cr [ PPC only ] - modprobe ==> Documentation/debugging-modules.txt - modules_disabled +- msg_next_id [ sysv ipc ] - msgmax - msgmnb - msgmni @@ -62,7 +63,9 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - rtsig-max - rtsig-nr - sem +- sem_next_id [ sysv ipc ] - sg-big-buff [ generic SCSI device (sg) ] +- shm_next_id [ sysv ipc ] - shm_rmid_forced - shmall - shmmax [ sysv ipc ] @@ -320,6 +323,22 @@ to false. ============================================================== +msg_next_id, sem_next_id, and shm_next_id: + +These three toggles allows to specify desired id for next allocated IPC +object: message, semaphore or shared memory respectively. + +By default they are equal to -1, which means generic allocation logic. +Possible values to set are in range {0..INT_MAX}. + +Notes: +1) kernel doesn't guarantee, that new object will have desired id. So, +it's up to userspace, how to handle an object with "wrong" id. +2) Toggle with non-default value will be set back to -1 by kernel after +successful IPC object allocation. + +============================================================== + nmi_watchdog: Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems. When the value is @@ -542,6 +561,19 @@ are doing anyway :) ============================================================== +shmall: + +This parameter sets the total amount of shared memory pages that +can be used system wide. Hence, SHMALL should always be at least +ceil(shmmax/PAGE_SIZE). + +If you are not sure what the default PAGE_SIZE is on your Linux +system, you can run the following command: + +# getconf PAGE_SIZE + +============================================================== + shmmax: This value can be used to query and set the run time limit |
