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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index cd8717a3627..ebff3c10a07 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1003,11 +1003,13 @@ CHAPTER 3: PER-PROCESS PARAMETERS 3.1 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score ------------------------------------------------------ -This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes -should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. Giving it a high score will -increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer. Valid -values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which disables -oom-killing altogether for this process. +This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes should +be killed in an out-of-memory situation. The oom_adj value is a characteristic +of the task's mm, so all threads that share an mm with pid will have the same +oom_adj value. A high value will increase the likelihood of this process being +killed by the oom-killer. Valid values are in the range -16 to +15 as +explained below and a special value of -17, which disables oom-killing +altogether for threads sharing pid's mm. The process to be killed in an out-of-memory situation is selected among all others based on its badness score. This value equals the original memory size of the process @@ -1021,6 +1023,9 @@ the parent's score if they do not share the same memory. Thus forking servers are the prime candidates to be killed. Having only one 'hungry' child will make parent less preferable than the child. +/proc/<pid>/oom_adj cannot be changed for kthreads since they are immune from +oom-killing already. + /proc/<pid>/oom_score shows process' current badness score. The following heuristics are then applied: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index 5147be5e13c..b58b84b50fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ rodir -- FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. On Windows, If you want to use ATTR_RO as read-only flag even for the directory, set this option. +errors=panic|continue|remount-ro + -- specify FAT behavior on critical errors: panic, continue + without doing anything or remount the partition in + read-only mode (default behavior). + <bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false TODO |