These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources

[kvmfornfv.git] / kernel / Documentation / sysctl / vm.txt

diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/kernel/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 9832ec5..f72370b 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/kernel/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -225,11 +225,11 @@ with your system.  To disable them, echo 4 (bit 3) into drop_caches.
 extfrag_threshold
 
 This parameter affects whether the kernel will compact memory or direct
-reclaim to satisfy a high-order allocation. /proc/extfrag_index shows what
-the fragmentation index for each order is in each zone in the system. Values
-tending towards 0 imply allocations would fail due to lack of memory,
-values towards 1000 imply failures are due to fragmentation and -1 implies
-that the allocation will succeed as long as watermarks are met.
+reclaim to satisfy a high-order allocation. The extfrag/extfrag_index file in
+debugfs shows what the fragmentation index for each order is in each zone in
+the system. Values tending towards 0 imply allocations would fail due to lack
+of memory, values towards 1000 imply failures are due to fragmentation and -1
+implies that the allocation will succeed as long as watermarks are met.
 
 The kernel will not compact memory in a zone if the
 fragmentation index is <= extfrag_threshold. The default value is 500.
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ zone[i]'s protection[j] is calculated by following expression.
 
 (i < j):
   zone[i]->protection[j]
-  = (total sums of present_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node)
+  = (total sums of managed_pages from zone[i+1] to zone[j] on the node)
     / lowmem_reserve_ratio[i];
 (i = j):
    (should not be protected. = 0;
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ The default values of lowmem_reserve_ratio[i] are
     256 (if zone[i] means DMA or DMA32 zone)
     32  (others).
 As above expression, they are reciprocal number of ratio.
-256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total present
+256 means 1/256. # of protection pages becomes about "0.39%" of total managed
 pages of higher zones on the node.
 
 If you would like to protect more pages, smaller values are effective.
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ and don't use much of it.
 The default value is 0.
 
 See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting and
-security/commoncap.c::cap_vm_enough_memory() for more information.
+mm/mmap.c::__vm_enough_memory() for more information.
 
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