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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio-gpio.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt | 4 |
5 files changed, 27 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index c07f7b4fb88d..71c4da413444 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -466,6 +466,10 @@ Note: 5.3 swappiness Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only. +Please note that unlike the global swappiness, memcg knob set to 0 +really prevents from any swapping even if there is a swap storage +available. This might lead to memcg OOM killer if there are no file +pages to reclaim. Following cgroups' swappiness can't be changed. - root cgroup (uses /proc/sys/vm/swappiness). diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio-gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio-gpio.txt index bc9549529014..c79bab025369 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio-gpio.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mdio-gpio.txt @@ -8,9 +8,16 @@ gpios property as described in section VIII.1 in the following order: MDC, MDIO. +Note: Each gpio-mdio bus should have an alias correctly numbered in "aliases" +node. + Example: -mdio { +aliases { + mdio-gpio0 = <&mdio0>; +}; + +mdio0: mdio { compatible = "virtual,mdio-gpio"; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index a1793d670cd0..3844d21d6ca3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Table of Contents 2 Modifying System Parameters 3 Per-Process Parameters - 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj - Adjust the oom-killer + 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj & /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score 3.2 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields @@ -1320,10 +1320,10 @@ of the kernel. CHAPTER 3: PER-PROCESS PARAMETERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj- Adjust the oom-killer score +3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj & /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj- Adjust the oom-killer score -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -This file can be used to adjust the badness heuristic used to select which +These file can be used to adjust the badness heuristic used to select which process gets killed in out of memory conditions. The badness heuristic assigns a value to each candidate task ranging from 0 @@ -1361,6 +1361,12 @@ same system, cpuset, mempolicy, or memory controller resources to use at least equivalent to discounting 50% of the task's allowed memory from being considered as scoring against the task. +For backwards compatibility with previous kernels, /proc/<pid>/oom_adj may also +be used to tune the badness score. Its acceptable values range from -16 +(OOM_ADJUST_MIN) to +15 (OOM_ADJUST_MAX) and a special value of -17 +(OOM_DISABLE) to disable oom killing entirely for that task. Its value is +scaled linearly with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj. + The value of /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj may be reduced no lower than the last value set by a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE process. To reduce the value any lower requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. @@ -1375,7 +1381,9 @@ minimal amount of work. ------------------------------------------------------------- This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for -any given <pid>. +any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj to tune which +process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. + 3.3 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields ------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt index 4164f5c02e4b..f310edec8a77 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt @@ -164,4 +164,4 @@ read the CRC recorded by the NIC on receipt of the packet. This requests that the NIC receive all possible frames, including errored frames (such as bad FCS, etc). This can be helpful when sniffing a link with bad packets on it. Some NICs may receive more packets if also put into normal -PROMISC mdoe. +PROMISC mode. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt index 5b34b762d7d5..6d993510f091 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/vxlan.txt @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ no entry is in the forwarding table. # ip link delete vxlan0 3. Show vxlan info - # ip -d show vxlan0 + # ip -d link show vxlan0 It is possible to create, destroy and display the vxlan forwarding table using the new bridge command. @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ forwarding table using the new bridge command. # bridge fdb add to 00:17:42:8a:b4:05 dst 192.19.0.2 dev vxlan0 2. Delete forwarding table entry - # bridge fdb delete 00:17:42:8a:b4:05 + # bridge fdb delete 00:17:42:8a:b4:05 dev vxlan0 3. Show forwarding table # bridge fdb show dev vxlan0 |