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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 0e486f41185e..d359bcfadd39 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -905,6 +905,17 @@ enabled, otherwise writing to this file will return ``-EBUSY``. The default value is 8. +perf_user_access (arm64 only) +================================= + +Controls user space access for reading perf event counters. When set to 1, +user space can read performance monitor counter registers directly. + +The default value is 0 (access disabled). + +See Documentation/arm64/perf.rst for more information. + + pid_max ======= diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index 5e795202111f..f4804ce37c58 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ how much memory needs to be free before kswapd goes back to sleep. The unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 10 means the distances between watermarks are 0.1% of the available memory in the -node/system. The maximum value is 1000, or 10% of memory. +node/system. The maximum value is 3000, or 30% of memory. A high rate of threads entering direct reclaim (allocstall) or kswapd going to sleep prematurely (kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly) can indicate |