diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/abi.rst | 67 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/abi.txt | 54 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.rst (renamed from Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt) | 146 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/index.rst (renamed from Documentation/sysctl/README) | 36 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.rst (renamed from Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt) | 372 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/net.rst (renamed from Documentation/sysctl/net.txt) | 141 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/sunrpc.rst (renamed from Documentation/sysctl/sunrpc.txt) | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/user.rst (renamed from Documentation/sysctl/user.txt) | 32 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.rst (renamed from Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt) | 260 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/panic.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/swap.c | 2 |
17 files changed, 653 insertions, 484 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 6b2adda1cc03..01123f1de354 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3144,7 +3144,7 @@ numa_zonelist_order= [KNL, BOOT] Select zonelist order for NUMA. 'node', 'default' can be specified This can be set from sysctl after boot. - See Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt for details. + See Documentation/sysctl/vm.rst for details. ohci1394_dma=early [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver. See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst index ddf8d8d33377..f5e92f33f96e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ processes address space and many other cool things. Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable settings. Most of these settings are available via ``/proc`` filesystem and can be quired and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs -are described in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt and in `man 5 proc`_. +are described in Documentation/sysctl/vm.rst and in `man 5 proc`_. .. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst index 9303786632d1..7b2b8767c0b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ MADV_UNMERGEABLE is applied to a range which was never MADV_MERGEABLE. If a region of memory must be split into at least one new MADV_MERGEABLE or MADV_UNMERGEABLE region, the madvise may return ENOMEM if the process -will exceed ``vm.max_map_count`` (see Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt). +will exceed ``vm.max_map_count`` (see Documentation/sysctl/vm.rst). Like other madvise calls, they are intended for use on mapped areas of the user address space: they will report ENOMEM if the specified range diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst index 75d2bbe9813f..1d8e748f909f 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Kernel Pointers For printing kernel pointers which should be hidden from unprivileged users. The behaviour of %pK depends on the kptr_restrict sysctl - see -Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt for more details. +Documentation/sysctl/kernel.rst for more details. Unmodified Addresses -------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 48c79e78817b..5c3399cde1c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -2287,7 +2287,7 @@ addr_scope_policy - INTEGER /proc/sys/net/core/* - Please see: Documentation/sysctl/net.txt for descriptions of these entries. + Please see: Documentation/sysctl/net.rst for descriptions of these entries. /proc/sys/net/unix/* diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/abi.rst b/Documentation/sysctl/abi.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..599bcde7f0b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/abi.rst @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +================================ +Documentation for /proc/sys/abi/ +================================ + +kernel version 2.6.0.test2 + +Copyright (c) 2003, Fabian Frederick <ffrederick@users.sourceforge.net> + +For general info: index.rst. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +This path is binary emulation relevant aka personality types aka abi. +When a process is executed, it's linked to an exec_domain whose +personality is defined using values available from /proc/sys/abi. +You can find further details about abi in include/linux/personality.h. + +Here are the files featuring in 2.6 kernel: + +- defhandler_coff +- defhandler_elf +- defhandler_lcall7 +- defhandler_libcso +- fake_utsname +- trace + +defhandler_coff +--------------- + +defined value: + PER_SCOSVR3:: + + 0x0003 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | WHOLE_SECONDS | SHORT_INODE + +defhandler_elf +-------------- + +defined value: + PER_LINUX:: + + 0 + +defhandler_lcall7 +----------------- + +defined value : + PER_SVR4:: + + 0x0001 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, + +defhandler_libsco +----------------- + +defined value: + PER_SVR4:: + + 0x0001 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, + +fake_utsname +------------ + +Unused + +trace +----- + +Unused diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/abi.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/abi.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 63f4ebcf652c..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/abi.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -Documentation for /proc/sys/abi/* kernel version 2.6.0.test2 - (c) 2003, Fabian Frederick <ffrederick@users.sourceforge.net> - -For general info : README. - -============================================================== - -This path is binary emulation relevant aka personality types aka abi. -When a process is executed, it's linked to an exec_domain whose -personality is defined using values available from /proc/sys/abi. -You can find further details about abi in include/linux/personality.h. - -Here are the files featuring in 2.6 kernel : - -- defhandler_coff -- defhandler_elf -- defhandler_lcall7 -- defhandler_libcso -- fake_utsname -- trace - -=========================================================== -defhandler_coff: -defined value : -PER_SCOSVR3 -0x0003 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | WHOLE_SECONDS | SHORT_INODE - -=========================================================== -defhandler_elf: -defined value : -PER_LINUX -0 - -=========================================================== -defhandler_lcall7: -defined value : -PER_SVR4 -0x0001 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, - -=========================================================== -defhandler_libsco: -defined value: -PER_SVR4 -0x0001 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, - -=========================================================== -fake_utsname: -Unused - -=========================================================== -trace: -Unused - -=========================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.rst index ebc679bcb2dc..2a45119e3331 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.rst @@ -1,10 +1,16 @@ -Documentation for /proc/sys/fs/* kernel version 2.2.10 - (c) 1998, 1999, Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org> - (c) 2009, Shen Feng<shen@cn.fujitsu.com> +=============================== +Documentation for /proc/sys/fs/ +=============================== -For general info and legal blurb, please look in README. +kernel version 2.2.10 -============================================================== +Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org> + +Copyright (c) 2009, Shen Feng<shen@cn.fujitsu.com> + +For general info and legal blurb, please look in intro.rst. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This file contains documentation for the sysctl files in /proc/sys/fs/ and is valid for Linux kernel version 2.2. @@ -16,9 +22,10 @@ system, it is advisable to read both documentation and source before actually making adjustments. 1. /proc/sys/fs ----------------------------------------------------------- +=============== Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/fs: + - aio-max-nr - aio-nr - dentry-state @@ -42,9 +49,9 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/fs: - super-max - super-nr -============================================================== -aio-nr & aio-max-nr: +aio-nr & aio-max-nr +------------------- aio-nr is the running total of the number of events specified on the io_setup system call for all currently active aio contexts. If aio-nr @@ -52,21 +59,20 @@ reaches aio-max-nr then io_setup will fail with EAGAIN. Note that raising aio-max-nr does not result in the pre-allocation or re-sizing of any kernel data structures. -============================================================== -dentry-state: +dentry-state +------------ -From linux/include/linux/dcache.h: --------------------------------------------------------------- -struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat { +From linux/include/linux/dcache.h:: + + struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat { int nr_dentry; int nr_unused; int age_limit; /* age in seconds */ int want_pages; /* pages requested by system */ int nr_negative; /* # of unused negative dentries */ int dummy; /* Reserved for future use */ -}; --------------------------------------------------------------- + }; Dentries are dynamically allocated and deallocated. @@ -84,9 +90,9 @@ negative dentries which do not map to any files. Instead, they help speeding up rejection of non-existing files provided by the users. -============================================================== -dquot-max & dquot-nr: +dquot-max & dquot-nr +-------------------- The file dquot-max shows the maximum number of cached disk quota entries. @@ -98,9 +104,9 @@ If the number of free cached disk quotas is very low and you have some awesome number of simultaneous system users, you might want to raise the limit. -============================================================== -file-max & file-nr: +file-max & file-nr +------------------ The value in file-max denotes the maximum number of file- handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get lots @@ -119,18 +125,19 @@ used file handles. Attempts to allocate more file descriptors than file-max are reported with printk, look for "VFS: file-max limit <number> reached". -============================================================== -nr_open: + +nr_open +------- This denotes the maximum number of file-handles a process can allocate. Default value is 1024*1024 (1048576) which should be enough for most machines. Actual limit depends on RLIMIT_NOFILE resource limit. -============================================================== -inode-max, inode-nr & inode-state: +inode-max, inode-nr & inode-state +--------------------------------- As with file handles, the kernel allocates the inode structures dynamically, but can't free them yet. @@ -157,9 +164,9 @@ preshrink is nonzero when the nr_inodes > inode-max and the system needs to prune the inode list instead of allocating more. -============================================================== -overflowgid & overflowuid: +overflowgid & overflowuid +------------------------- Some filesystems only support 16-bit UIDs and GIDs, although in Linux UIDs and GIDs are 32 bits. When one of these filesystems is mounted @@ -169,18 +176,18 @@ to a fixed value before being written to disk. These sysctls allow you to change the value of the fixed UID and GID. The default is 65534. -============================================================== -pipe-user-pages-hard: +pipe-user-pages-hard +-------------------- Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes. Once this limit is reached, no new pipes may be allocated until usage goes below the limit again. When set to 0, no limit is applied, which is the default setting. -============================================================== -pipe-user-pages-soft: +pipe-user-pages-soft +-------------------- Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes before the pipe size gets limited to a single page. Once this limit is reached, @@ -190,9 +197,9 @@ denied until usage goes below the limit again. The default value allows to allocate up to 1024 pipes at their default size. When set to 0, no limit is applied. -============================================================== -protected_fifos: +protected_fifos +--------------- The intent of this protection is to avoid unintentional writes to an attacker-controlled FIFO, where a program expected to create a regular @@ -208,9 +215,9 @@ When set to "2" it also applies to group writable sticky directories. This protection is based on the restrictions in Openwall. -============================================================== -protected_hardlinks: +protected_hardlinks +-------------------- A long-standing class of security issues is the hardlink-based time-of-check-time-of-use race, most commonly seen in world-writable @@ -228,9 +235,9 @@ already own the source file, or do not have read/write access to it. This protection is based on the restrictions in Openwall and grsecurity. -============================================================== -protected_regular: +protected_regular +----------------- This protection is similar to protected_fifos, but it avoids writes to an attacker-controlled regular file, where a program @@ -244,9 +251,9 @@ owned by the owner of the directory. When set to "2" it also applies to group writable sticky directories. -============================================================== -protected_symlinks: +protected_symlinks +------------------ A long-standing class of security issues is the symlink-based time-of-check-time-of-use race, most commonly seen in world-writable @@ -264,34 +271,38 @@ follower match, or when the directory owner matches the symlink's owner. This protection is based on the restrictions in Openwall and grsecurity. -============================================================== suid_dumpable: +-------------- This value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are -0 - (default) - traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed - privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped. -1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is - owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is - intended for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked. - This is insecure as it allows regular users to examine the memory - contents of privileged processes. -2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped - anyway, but only if the "core_pattern" kernel sysctl is set to - either a pipe handler or a fully qualified path. (For more details - on this limitation, see CVE-2006-2451.) This mode is appropriate - when administrators are attempting to debug problems in a normal - environment, and either have a core dump pipe handler that knows - to treat privileged core dumps with care, or specific directory - defined for catching core dumps. If a core dump happens without - a pipe handler or fully qualifid path, a message will be emitted - to syslog warning about the lack of a correct setting. - -============================================================== - -super-max & super-nr: += ========== =============================================================== +0 (default) traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed + privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped. +1 (debug) all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is + owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is + intended for system debugging situations only. + Ptrace is unchecked. + This is insecure as it allows regular users to examine the + memory contents of privileged processes. +2 (suidsafe) any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped + anyway, but only if the "core_pattern" kernel sysctl is set to + either a pipe handler or a fully qualified path. (For more + details on this limitation, see CVE-2006-2451.) This mode is + appropriate when administrators are attempting to debug + problems in a normal environment, and either have a core dump + pipe handler that knows to treat privileged core dumps with + care, or specific directory defined for catching core dumps. + If a core dump happens without a pipe handler or fully + qualified path, a message will be emitted to syslog warning + about the lack of a correct setting. += ========== =============================================================== + + +super-max & super-nr +-------------------- These numbers control the maximum number of superblocks, and thus the maximum number of mounted filesystems the kernel @@ -299,33 +310,33 @@ can have. You only need to increase super-max if you need to mount more filesystems than the current value in super-max allows you to. -============================================================== -aio-nr & aio-max-nr: +aio-nr & aio-max-nr +------------------- aio-nr shows the current system-wide number of asynchronous io requests. aio-max-nr allows you to change the maximum value aio-nr can grow to. -============================================================== -mount-max: +mount-max +--------- This denotes the maximum number of mounts that may exist in a mount namespace. -============================================================== 2. /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ----------------------------------------------------------- +=========================== Documentation for the files in /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is in Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst. 3. /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem ----------------------------------------------------------- +======================================================== + The "mqueue" filesystem provides the necessary kernel features to enable the creation of a user space library that implements the POSIX message queues @@ -356,7 +367,7 @@ the default message size value if attr parameter of mq_open(2) is NULL. If it exceed msgsize_max, the default value is initialized msgsize_max. 4. /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface --------------------------------------------------------- +===================================================================== This directory contains configuration options for the epoll(7) interface. @@ -371,4 +382,3 @@ Each "watch" costs roughly 90 bytes on a 32bit kernel, and roughly 160 bytes on a 64bit one. The current default value for max_user_watches is the 1/32 of the available low memory, divided for the "watch" cost in bytes. - diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/README b/Documentation/sysctl/index.rst index d5f24ab0ecc3..efbcde8c1c9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/README +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/index.rst @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ -Documentation for /proc/sys/ kernel version 2.2.10 - (c) 1998, 1999, Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org> +:orphan: + +=========================== +Documentation for /proc/sys +=========================== + +Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org> + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Why', I hear you ask, 'would anyone even _want_ documentation for them sysctl files? If anybody really needs it, it's all in @@ -12,11 +19,12 @@ have the time or knowledge to read the source code. Furthermore, the programmers who built sysctl have built it to be actually used, not just for the fun of programming it :-) -============================================================== +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Legal blurb: As usual, there are two main things to consider: + 1. you get what you pay for 2. it's free @@ -35,15 +43,17 @@ stories to: <riel@nl.linux.org> Rik van Riel. -============================================================== +-------------------------------------------------------------- -Introduction: +Introduction +============ Sysctl is a means of configuring certain aspects of the kernel at run-time, and the /proc/sys/ directory is there so that you don't even need special tools to do it! In fact, there are only four things needed to use these config facilities: + - a running Linux system - root access - common sense (this is especially hard to come by these days) @@ -54,7 +64,9 @@ several (arch-dependent?) subdirs. Each subdir is mainly about one part of the kernel, so you can do configuration on a piece by piece basis, or just some 'thematic frobbing'. -The subdirs are about: +This documentation is about: + +=============== =============================================================== abi/ execution domains & personalities debug/ <empty> dev/ device specific information (eg dev/cdrom/info) @@ -70,7 +82,19 @@ sunrpc/ SUN Remote Procedure Call (NFS) vm/ memory management tuning buffer and cache management user/ Per user per user namespace limits +=============== =============================================================== These are the subdirs I have on my system. There might be more or other subdirs in another setup. If you see another dir, I'd really like to hear about it :-) + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + abi + fs + kernel + net + sunrpc + user + vm diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.rst index 1b2fe17cd2fa..a0c1d4ce403a 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -1,10 +1,16 @@ -Documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/* kernel version 2.2.10 - (c) 1998, 1999, Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org> - (c) 2009, Shen Feng<shen@cn.fujitsu.com> +=================================== +Documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/ +=================================== -For general info and legal blurb, please look in README. +kernel version 2.2.10 -============================================================== +Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org> + +Copyright (c) 2009, Shen Feng<shen@cn.fujitsu.com> + +For general info and legal blurb, please look in index.rst. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This file contains documentation for the sysctl files in /proc/sys/kernel/ and is valid for Linux kernel version 2.2. @@ -101,9 +107,9 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - watchdog_thresh - version -============================================================== acct: +===== highwater lowwater frequency @@ -118,18 +124,18 @@ That is, suspend accounting if there left <= 2% free; resume it if we got >=4%; consider information about amount of free space valid for 30 seconds. -============================================================== acpi_video_flags: +================= flags See Doc*/kernel/power/video.txt, it allows mode of video boot to be set during run time. -============================================================== auto_msgmni: +============ This variable has no effect and may be removed in future kernel releases. Reading it always returns 0. @@ -139,9 +145,8 @@ Echoing "1" into this file enabled msgmni automatic recomputing. Echoing "0" turned it off. auto_msgmni default value was 1. -============================================================== - bootloader_type: +================ x86 bootloader identification @@ -156,9 +161,9 @@ the value 340 = 0x154. See the type_of_loader and ext_loader_type fields in Documentation/x86/boot.rst for additional information. -============================================================== bootloader_version: +=================== x86 bootloader version @@ -168,27 +173,31 @@ file will contain the value 564 = 0x234. See the type_of_loader and ext_loader_ver fields in Documentation/x86/boot.rst for additional information. -============================================================== -cap_last_cap +cap_last_cap: +============= Highest valid capability of the running kernel. Exports CAP_LAST_CAP from the kernel. -============================================================== core_pattern: +============= core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name. -. max length 127 characters; default value is "core" -. core_pattern is used as a pattern template for the output filename; + +* max length 127 characters; default value is "core" +* core_pattern is used as a pattern template for the output filename; certain string patterns (beginning with '%') are substituted with their actual values. -. backward compatibility with core_uses_pid: +* backward compatibility with core_uses_pid: + If core_pattern does not include "%p" (default does not) and core_uses_pid is set, then .PID will be appended to the filename. -. corename format specifiers: + +* corename format specifiers:: + %<NUL> '%' is dropped %% output one '%' %p pid @@ -205,13 +214,14 @@ core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name. %e executable filename (may be shortened) %E executable path %<OTHER> both are dropped -. If the first character of the pattern is a '|', the kernel will treat + +* If the first character of the pattern is a '|', the kernel will treat the rest of the pattern as a command to run. The core dump will be written to the standard input of that program instead of to a file. -============================================================== core_pipe_limit: +================ This sysctl is only applicable when core_pattern is configured to pipe core files to a user space helper (when the first character of @@ -232,9 +242,9 @@ parallel, but that no waiting will take place (i.e. the collecting process is not guaranteed access to /proc/<crashing pid>/). This value defaults to 0. -============================================================== core_uses_pid: +============== The default coredump filename is "core". By setting core_uses_pid to 1, the coredump filename becomes core.PID. @@ -242,9 +252,9 @@ If core_pattern does not include "%p" (default does not) and core_uses_pid is set, then .PID will be appended to the filename. -============================================================== ctrl-alt-del: +============= When the value in this file is 0, ctrl-alt-del is trapped and sent to the init(1) program to handle a graceful restart. @@ -252,14 +262,15 @@ When, however, the value is > 0, Linux's reaction to a Vulcan Nerve Pinch (tm) will be an immediate reboot, without even syncing its dirty buffers. -Note: when a program (like dosemu) has the keyboard in 'raw' -mode, the ctrl-alt-del is intercepted by the program before it -ever reaches the kernel tty layer, and it's up to the program -to decide what to do with it. +Note: + when a program (like dosemu) has the keyboard in 'raw' + mode, the ctrl-alt-del is intercepted by the program before it + ever reaches the kernel tty layer, and it's up to the program + to decide what to do with it. -============================================================== dmesg_restrict: +=============== This toggle indicates whether unprivileged users are prevented from using dmesg(8) to view messages from the kernel's log buffer. @@ -270,18 +281,21 @@ dmesg(8). The kernel config option CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT sets the default value of dmesg_restrict. -============================================================== domainname & hostname: +====================== These files can be used to set the NIS/YP domainname and the hostname of your box in exactly the same way as the commands -domainname and hostname, i.e.: -# echo "darkstar" > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname -# echo "mydomain" > /proc/sys/kernel/domainname -has the same effect as -# hostname "darkstar" -# domainname "mydomain" +domainname and hostname, i.e.:: + + # echo "darkstar" > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname + # echo "mydomain" > /proc/sys/kernel/domainname + +has the same effect as:: + + # hostname "darkstar" + # domainname "mydomain" Note, however, that the classic darkstar.frop.org has the hostname "darkstar" and DNS (Internet Domain Name Server) @@ -290,8 +304,9 @@ Information Service) or YP (Yellow Pages) domainname. These two domain names are in general different. For a detailed discussion see the hostname(1) man page. -============================================================== + hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace: +============================= This value controls the hard lockup detector behavior when a hard lockup condition is detected as to whether or not to gather further @@ -301,9 +316,10 @@ will be initiated. 0: do nothing. This is the default behavior. 1: on detection capture more debug information. -============================================================== + hardlockup_panic: +================= This parameter can be used to control whether the kernel panics when a hard lockup is detected. @@ -314,16 +330,16 @@ when a hard lockup is detected. See Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt for more information. This can also be set using the nmi_watchdog kernel parameter. -============================================================== hotplug: +======== Path for the hotplug policy agent. Default value is "/sbin/hotplug". -============================================================== hung_task_panic: +================ Controls the kernel's behavior when a hung task is detected. This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. @@ -332,27 +348,28 @@ This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. 1: panic immediately. -============================================================== hung_task_check_count: +====================== The upper bound on the number of tasks that are checked. This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. -============================================================== hung_task_timeout_secs: +======================= When a task in D state did not get scheduled for more than this value report a warning. This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. 0: means infinite timeout - no checking done. + Possible values to set are in range {0..LONG_MAX/HZ}. -============================================================== hung_task_check_interval_secs: +============================== Hung task check interval. If hung task checking is enabled (see hung_task_timeout_secs), the check is done every @@ -362,9 +379,9 @@ This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. 0 (default): means use hung_task_timeout_secs as checking interval. Possible values to set are in range {0..LONG_MAX/HZ}. -============================================================== hung_task_warnings: +=================== The maximum number of warnings to report. During a check interval if a hung task is detected, this value is decreased by 1. @@ -373,9 +390,9 @@ This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled. -1: report an infinite number of warnings. -============================================================== hyperv_record_panic_msg: +======================== Controls whether the panic kmsg data should be reported to Hyper-V. @@ -383,9 +400,9 @@ Controls whether the panic kmsg data should be reported to Hyper-V. 1: report the panic kmsg data. This is the default behavior. -============================================================== kexec_load_disabled: +==================== A toggle indicating if the kexec_load syscall has been disabled. This value defaults to 0 (false: kexec_load enabled), but can be set to 1 @@ -395,9 +412,9 @@ loaded before disabling the syscall, allowing a system to set up (and later use) an image without it being altered. Generally used together with the "modules_disabled" sysctl. -============================================================== kptr_restrict: +============== This toggle indicates whether restrictions are placed on exposing kernel ad |