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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2013-06-27 23:00:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2013-06-27 23:00:25 -0700 |
| commit | 31881d74b6dd1a6c530cff61248def4f2da38bee (patch) | |
| tree | be62420cf39192074e13b25553d172b9d5e58a33 /Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting | |
| parent | 8855f30cd2b68012571932c7b01290c20be4508c (diff) | |
| parent | 257867dc8d893690c175c1f717f91c3b6d44a63d (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-next' of git://github.com/rydberg/linux into next
Pull in changes from Henrik: "a trivial MT documentation fix".
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting index 706d7ed..8eaa2fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting +++ b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ The Linux kernel supports the following overcommit handling modes default. 1 - Always overcommit. Appropriate for some scientific - applications. + applications. Classic example is code using sparse arrays + and just relying on the virtual memory consisting almost + entirely of zero pages. 2 - Don't overcommit. The total address space commit for the system is not permitted to exceed swap + a @@ -18,6 +20,10 @@ The Linux kernel supports the following overcommit handling modes pages but will receive errors on memory allocation as appropriate. + Useful for applications that want to guarantee their + memory allocations will be available in the future + without having to initialize every page. + The overcommit policy is set via the sysctl `vm.overcommit_memory'. The overcommit percentage is set via `vm.overcommit_ratio'. |
