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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index e55124e..9886c3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -317,13 +317,15 @@ for more than this value report a warning.
This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled.
0: means infinite timeout - no checking done.
+Possible values to set are in range {0..LONG_MAX/HZ}.
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-hung_task_warning:
+hung_task_warnings:
The maximum number of warnings to report. During a check interval
-When this value is reached, no more the warnings will be reported.
+if a hung task is detected, this value is decreased by 1.
+When this value reaches 0, no more warnings will be reported.
This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled.
-1: report an infinite number of warnings.
@@ -441,8 +443,7 @@ feature should be disabled. Otherwise, if the system overhead from the
feature is too high then the rate the kernel samples for NUMA hinting
faults may be controlled by the numa_balancing_scan_period_min_ms,
numa_balancing_scan_delay_ms, numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms,
-numa_balancing_scan_size_mb, numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls and
-numa_balancing_migrate_deferred.
+numa_balancing_scan_size_mb, and numa_balancing_settle_count sysctls.
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@@ -483,13 +484,6 @@ rate for each task.
numa_balancing_scan_size_mb is how many megabytes worth of pages are
scanned for a given scan.
-numa_balancing_migrate_deferred is how many page migrations get skipped
-unconditionally, after a page migration is skipped because a page is shared
-with other tasks. This reduces page migration overhead, and determines
-how much stronger the "move task near its memory" policy scheduler becomes,
-versus the "move memory near its task" memory management policy, for workloads
-with shared memory.
-
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osrelease, ostype & version:
@@ -792,6 +786,8 @@ can be ORed together:
1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded.
2048 - The system is working around a severe firmware bug.
4096 - An out-of-tree module has been loaded.
+8192 - An unsigned module has been loaded in a kernel supporting module
+ signature.
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