diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 38 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 9886c3d57fc2..c14374e71775 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -75,8 +75,10 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - shmall - shmmax [ sysv ipc ] - shmmni +- softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace - stop-a [ SPARC only ] - sysrq ==> Documentation/sysrq.txt +- sysctl_writes_strict - tainted - threads-max - unknown_nmi_panic @@ -762,6 +764,42 @@ 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. + +============================================================== + +softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace: + +This value controls the soft lockup detector thread's behavior +when a soft lockup condition is detected as to whether or not +to gather further debug information. If enabled, each cpu will +be issued an NMI and instructed to capture stack trace. + +This feature is only applicable for architectures which support +NMI. + +0: do nothing. This is the default behavior. + +1: on detection capture more debug information. + +============================================================== + tainted: Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which |