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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-06-30 02:29:11 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-06-30 02:29:11 +0200 |
commit | 65090f30ab791810a3dc840317e57df05018559c (patch) | |
tree | f417526656da37109777e89613e140ffc59228bc /Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | |
parent | Merge tag 'devprop-5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git... (diff) | |
parent | mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page() (diff) | |
download | linux-65090f30ab791810a3dc840317e57df05018559c.tar.xz linux-65090f30ab791810a3dc840317e57df05018559c.zip |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"191 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, kernel/watchdog, and mm (gup, pagealloc, slab,
slub, kmemleak, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap,
mprotect, bootmem, dma, tracing, vmalloc, kasan, initialization,
pagealloc, and memory-failure)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (191 commits)
mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page()
mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address
mm/page_alloc: split pcp->high across all online CPUs for cpuless nodes
mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists
mm: replace CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP with CONFIG_FLATMEM
mm: replace CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES with CONFIG_NUMA
docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM
arch, mm: remove stale mentions of DISCONIGMEM
mm: remove CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
m68k: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
arc: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
arc: update comment about HIGHMEM implementation
alpha: remove DISCONTIGMEM and NUMA
mm/page_alloc: move free_the_page
mm/page_alloc: fix counting of managed_pages
mm/page_alloc: improve memmap_pages dbg msg
mm: drop SECTION_SHIFT in code comments
mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
mm/page_alloc: limit the number of pages on PCP lists when reclaim is active
mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch freed
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 10dd4b111e5c..426162009ce9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -1297,11 +1297,11 @@ This parameter can be used to control the soft lockup detector. = ================================= The soft lockup detector monitors CPUs for threads that are hogging the CPUs -without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'watchdog/N' threads -from running. The mechanism depends on the CPUs ability to respond to timer -interrupts which are needed for the 'watchdog/N' threads to be woken up by -the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI watchdog — if enabled — can -detect a hard lockup condition. +without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'migration/N' threads +from running, causing the watchdog work fail to execute. The mechanism depends +on the CPUs ability to respond to timer interrupts which are needed for the +watchdog work to be queued by the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI +watchdog — if enabled — can detect a hard lockup condition. stack_erasing |