kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt, branch linux-3.5.y

mqueue: separate mqueue default value from maximum value

2012-06-01T00:49:31+00:00

Commit b231cca4381e ("message queues: increase range limits") changed mqueue default value when attr parameter is specified NULL from hard coded value to fs.mqueue.{msg,msgsize}_max sysctl value. This made large side effect. When user need to use two mqueue applications 1) using !NULL attr parameter and it require big message size and 2) using NULL attr parameter and only need small size message, app (1) require to raise fs.mqueue.msgsize_max and app (2) consume large memory size even though it doesn't need. Doug Ledford propsed to switch back it to static hard coded value. However it also has a compatibility problem. Some applications might started depend on the default value is tunable. The solution is to separate default value from maximum value. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford Acked-by: Doug Ledford Acked-by: Joe Korty Cc: Amerigo Wang Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: update epoll sysctl text

2011-05-23T22:14:11+00:00

max_user_instances was removed in this commit: commit 9df04e1f25effde823a600e755b51475d438f56b Author: Davide Libenzi Date: Thu Jan 29 14:25:26 2009 -0800 epoll: drop max_user_instances and rely only on max_user_watches but the documentation entry was not removed. Cc: Davide Libenzi Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: file handles are now freed

2011-03-16T17:47:03+00:00

Since file handles are freed, a little amendment to the documentation Signed-off-by: Federica Teodori Acked-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: update stale definition of file-nr in fs.txt

2009-09-24T14:20:57+00:00

In "documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and Documentation/sysctls" (commit 760df93ec) we merged /proc/sys/fs documentation in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt, but stale file-nr definition remained. This patch adds back the right fs-nr definition for 2.6 kernel. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and Documentation/sysctls

2009-04-03T02:04:53+00:00

Now /proc/sys is described in many places and much information is redundant. This patch updates the proc.txt and move the /proc/sys desciption out to the files in Documentation/sysctls. Details are: merge - 2.1 /proc/sys/fs - File system data - 2.11 /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem - 2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface with Documentation/sysctls/fs.txt. remove - 2.2 /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc - Miscellaneous binary formats since it's not better then the Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt. merge - 2.3 /proc/sys/kernel - general kernel parameters with Documentation/sysctls/kernel.txt remove - 2.5 /proc/sys/dev - Device specific parameters since it's obsolete the sysfs is used now. remove - 2.6 /proc/sys/sunrpc - Remote procedure calls since it's not better then the Documentation/sysctls/sunrpc.txt move - 2.7 /proc/sys/net - Networking stuff - 2.9 Appletalk - 2.10 IPX to newly created Documentation/sysctls/net.txt. remove - 2.8 /proc/sys/net/ipv4 - IPV4 settings since it's not better then the Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt. add - Chapter 3 Per-Process Parameters to descibe /proc//xxx parameters. Signed-off-by: Shen Feng Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open

2008-02-06T18:41:06+00:00

NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open more than 1024*1024 handles. Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process. Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential exhaust. This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to 1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload needs it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Ralf Baechle Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc

2006-11-30T04:21:10+00:00

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some misc words. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] Fix docs for fs.suid_dumpable

2006-08-27T18:01:28+00:00

Sergey Vlasov noticed that there is not kernel.suid_dumpable, but fs.suid_dumpable. How KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE ended up in fs_table[]? Hell knows... Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!