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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2013-05-02 17:37:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2013-05-02 17:54:19 +0200 |
| commit | c032862fba51a3ca504752d3a25186b324c5ce83 (patch) | |
| tree | 955dc2ba4ab3df76ecc2bb780ee84aca04967e8d /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | fda76e074c7737fc57855dd17c762e50ed526052 (diff) | |
| parent | 8700c95adb033843fc163d112b9d21d4fda78018 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c032862fba51a3ca504752d3a25186b324c5ce83.tar.bz2 | |
Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.
Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting index 706d7ed9d8d2..8eaa2fc4b8fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting +++ b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ The Linux kernel supports the following overcommit handling modes default. 1 - Always overcommit. Appropriate for some scientific - applications. + applications. Classic example is code using sparse arrays + and just relying on the virtual memory consisting almost + entirely of zero pages. 2 - Don't overcommit. The total address space commit for the system is not permitted to exceed swap + a @@ -18,6 +20,10 @@ The Linux kernel supports the following overcommit handling modes pages but will receive errors on memory allocation as appropriate. + Useful for applications that want to guarantee their + memory allocations will be available in the future + without having to initialize every page. + The overcommit policy is set via the sysctl `vm.overcommit_memory'. The overcommit percentage is set via `vm.overcommit_ratio'. |