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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-15 11:41:44 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-15 11:41:44 -0800
commit875fc4f5ddf35605581f9a5900c14afef48611f2 (patch)
treee237a28a71a5d1e72eaf0ecda737eb5c8614c72c /Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
parent7d1fc01afc5af35e5197e0e75abe900f6bd279b8 (diff)
parent7dfa4612204b511c934ca2a0e4f306f9981bd9aa (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - A few hotfixes which missed 4.4 becasue I was asleep. cc'ed to -stable - A few misc fixes - OCFS2 updates - Part of MM. Including pretty large changes to page-flags handling and to thp management which have been buffered up for 2-3 cycles now. I have a lot of MM material this time. [ It turns out the THP part wasn't quite ready, so that got dropped from this series - Linus ] * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (117 commits) zsmalloc: reorganize struct size_class to pack 4 bytes hole mm/zbud.c: use list_last_entry() instead of list_tail_entry() zram/zcomp: do not zero out zcomp private pages zram: pass gfp from zcomp frontend to backend zram: try vmalloc() after kmalloc() zram/zcomp: use GFP_NOIO to allocate streams mm: add tracepoint for scanning pages drivers/base/memory.c: fix kernel warning during memory hotplug on ppc64 mm/page_isolation: use macro to judge the alignment mm: fix noisy sparse warning in LIBCFS_ALLOC_PRE() mm: rework virtual memory accounting include/linux/memblock.h: fix ordering of 'flags' argument in comments mm: move lru_to_page to mm_inline.h Documentation/filesystems: describe the shared memory usage/accounting memory-hotplug: don't BUG() in register_memory_resource() hugetlb: make mm and fs code explicitly non-modular mm/swapfile.c: use list_for_each_entry_safe in free_swap_count_continuations mm: /proc/pid/clear_refs: no need to clear VM_SOFTDIRTY in clear_soft_dirty_pmd() mm: make sure isolate_lru_page() is never called for tail page vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
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@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- min_slab_ratio
- min_unmapped_ratio
- mmap_min_addr
+- mmap_rnd_bits
+- mmap_rnd_compat_bits
- nr_hugepages
- nr_overcommit_hugepages
- nr_trim_pages (only if CONFIG_MMU=n)
@@ -485,6 +487,33 @@ against future potential kernel bugs.
==============================================================
+mmap_rnd_bits:
+
+This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
+determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
+resulting from mmap allocations on architectures which support
+tuning address space randomization. This value will be bounded
+by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
+
+This value can be changed after boot using the
+/proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
+
+==============================================================
+
+mmap_rnd_compat_bits:
+
+This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
+determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
+resulting from mmap allocations for applications run in
+compatibility mode on architectures which support tuning address
+space randomization. This value will be bounded by the
+architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
+
+This value can be changed after boot using the
+/proc/sys/vm/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
+
+==============================================================
+
nr_hugepages
Change the minimum size of the hugepage pool.