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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-07 03:35:10 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-07 03:35:10 +0400
commit57d326169e878a1a37b2bccd1cf81f6809ee67b9 (patch)
tree86ed74ae4dc2beaebce1c67b8459f1873b777d3a /Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
parent7b215de3d0abbc4f6daf2efd19e8809af0564490 (diff)
parent0244756edc4b98c129e92c7061d9f383708cf786 (diff)
downloadlinux-57d326169e878a1a37b2bccd1cf81f6809ee67b9.tar.xz
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton) into next
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: - Most of the rest of MM. This includes "mark remap_file_pages syscall as deprecated" but the actual "replace remap_file_pages syscall with emulation" is held back. I guess we'll need to work out when to pull the trigger on that one. - various minor cleanups to obscure filesystems - the drivers/rtc queue - hfsplus updates - ufs, hpfs, fatfs, affs, reiserfs - Documentation/ - signals - procfs - cpu hotplug - lib/idr.c - rapidio - sysctl - ipc updates * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (171 commits) ufs: sb mutex merge + mutex_destroy powerpc: update comments for generic idle conversion cris: update comments for generic idle conversion idle: remove cpu_idle() forward declarations nbd: zero from and len fields in NBD_CMD_DISCONNECT. mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_* MAINTAINERS: adi-buildroot-devel is moderated MAINTAINERS: add linux-api for review of API/ABI changes mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging fs/dlm/debug_fs.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts fs/dlm/lockspace.c: convert simple_str to kstr fs/dlm/config.c: convert simple_str to kstr mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions mm: memcontrol: clean up memcg zoneinfo lookup mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free) mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations lib/radix-tree.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for radix tree allocations mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace() mm/kmemleak.c: use %u to print ->checksum ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 9886c3d57fc2..708bb7f1b7e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- shmmni
- stop-a [ SPARC only ]
- sysrq ==> Documentation/sysrq.txt
+- sysctl_writes_strict
- tainted
- threads-max
- unknown_nmi_panic
@@ -762,6 +763,26 @@ without users and with a dead originative process will be destroyed.
==============================================================
+sysctl_writes_strict:
+
+Control how file position affects the behavior of updating sysctl values
+via the /proc/sys interface:
+
+ -1 - Legacy per-write sysctl value handling, with no printk warnings.
+ Each write syscall must fully contain the sysctl value to be
+ written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor
+ will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position.
+ 0 - (default) Same behavior as above, but warn about processes that
+ perform writes to a sysctl file descriptor when the file position
+ is not 0.
+ 1 - Respect file position when writing sysctl strings. Multiple writes
+ will append to the sysctl value buffer. Anything past the max length
+ of the sysctl value buffer will be ignored. Writes to numeric sysctl
+ entries must always be at file position 0 and the value must be
+ fully contained in the buffer sent in the write syscall.
+
+==============================================================
+
tainted:
Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which