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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/net.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 14 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt index 809ab6efcc74..f0480f7ea740 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/net.txt @@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ Values : 1 - enable the JIT 2 - enable the JIT and ask the compiler to emit traces on kernel log. +bpf_jit_harden +-------------- + +This enables hardening for the Berkeley Packet Filter Just in Time compiler. +Supported are eBPF JIT backends. Enabling hardening trades off performance, +but can mitigate JIT spraying. +Values : + 0 - disable JIT hardening (default value) + 1 - enable JIT hardening for unprivileged users only + 2 - enable JIT hardening for all users + dev_weight -------------- diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 34a5fece3121..720355cbdf45 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - panic_on_oom - percpu_pagelist_fraction - stat_interval +- stat_refresh - swappiness - user_reserve_kbytes - vfs_cache_pressure @@ -755,6 +756,19 @@ is 1 second. ============================================================== +stat_refresh + +Any read or write (by root only) flushes all the per-cpu vm statistics +into their global totals, for more accurate reports when testing +e.g. cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh /proc/meminfo + +As a side-effect, it also checks for negative totals (elsewhere reported +as 0) and "fails" with EINVAL if any are found, with a warning in dmesg. +(At time of writing, a few stats are known sometimes to be found negative, +with no ill effects: errors and warnings on these stats are suppressed.) + +============================================================== + swappiness This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap |