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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-06 22:27:08 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-06 22:27:08 -0700
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few hotfixes - various misc updates - ocfs2 updates - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (108 commits) mm, memory_hotplug: move movable_node to the hotplug proper mm, memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE mm, memory_hotplug: drop artificial restriction on online/offline mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure mm: memcontrol: use generic mod_memcg_page_state for kmem pages mm: memcontrol: use the node-native slab memory counters mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() mm/zswap.c: improve a size determination in zswap_frontswap_init() mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_pool_create() mm/swapfile.c: sort swap entries before free mm/oom_kill: count global and memory cgroup oom kills mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim stats mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects mm: kmemleak: factor object reference updating out of scan_block() mm: kmemleak: slightly reduce the size of some structures on 64-bit architectures mm, mempolicy: don't check cpuset seqlock where it doesn't matter mm, cpuset: always use seqlock when changing task's nodemask mm, mempolicy: simplify rebinding mempolicies when updating cpusets ...
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index aa1d4409fe0a..d9c171ce4190 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2315,8 +2315,11 @@
that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
is not too small.
- movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
- of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
+ movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
+ NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
+ of such nodes will be usable only for movable
+ allocations which rules out almost all kernel
+ allocations. Use with caution!
MTD_Partition= [MTD]
Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>
@@ -3772,8 +3775,14 @@
slab_nomerge [MM]
Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
- allocs to different slabs. Debug options disable
- merging on their own.
+ allocs to different slabs, especially in hardened
+ environments where the risk of heap overflows and
+ layout control by attackers can usually be
+ frustrated by disabling merging. This will reduce
+ most of the exposure of a heap attack to a single
+ cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
+ unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
+ own.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]