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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-07 03:35:10 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-07 03:35:10 +0400 |
commit | 57d326169e878a1a37b2bccd1cf81f6809ee67b9 (patch) | |
tree | 86ed74ae4dc2beaebce1c67b8459f1873b777d3a /Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | |
parent | 7b215de3d0abbc4f6daf2efd19e8809af0564490 (diff) | |
parent | 0244756edc4b98c129e92c7061d9f383708cf786 (diff) | |
download | linux-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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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt')
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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 |