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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-07-17 08:58:04 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-07-17 08:58:04 -0700 |
commit | 57a8ec387e1441ea5e1232bc0749fb99a8cba7e7 (patch) | |
tree | b5fb03fc6bc5754de8b5b1f8b0e4f36d67c8315c /kernel/sysctl.c | |
parent | 0a8ad0ffa4d80a544f6cbff703bf6394339afcdf (diff) | |
parent | 43e11fa2d1d3b6e35629fa556eb7d571edba2010 (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"VM:
- z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool
- more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao
- fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
Christoph Hellwig
- !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig
- new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by
Kairui Song
- new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc
initialization, by Alexander Potapenko
- ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual
- generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual
- device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin
- enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V
- add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy
- unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan
- several misc fixes
core/lib:
- new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan
- make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada
- changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better
code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan
- rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse
- convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes
get_maintainer.pl:
- add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches
misc:
- ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface
- coda updates
- gdb scripts, various"
[ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ]
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (100 commits)
fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support
mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions
mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h
mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h
device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable
device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails
include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation
ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid
include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures
scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices
scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command
drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl
kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings
select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()
select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR
...
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 1c1ad1e14f21..43186ccfa139 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -188,17 +188,17 @@ extern int no_unaligned_warning; * enum sysctl_writes_mode - supported sysctl write modes * * @SYSCTL_WRITES_LEGACY: each write syscall must fully contain the sysctl value - * to be written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor - * will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position. No warning - * is issued when the initial position is not 0. + * to be written, and multiple writes on the same sysctl file descriptor + * will rewrite the sysctl value, regardless of file position. No warning + * is issued when the initial position is not 0. * @SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN: same as above but warn when the initial file position is - * not 0. + * not 0. * @SYSCTL_WRITES_STRICT: writes to numeric sysctl entries must always be at - * file position 0 and the value must be fully contained in the buffer - * sent to the write syscall. If dealing with strings respect the file - * position, but restrict this to the max length of the buffer, anything - * passed the max lenght will be ignored. Multiple writes will append - * to the buffer. + * file position 0 and the value must be fully contained in the buffer + * sent to the write syscall. If dealing with strings respect the file + * position, but restrict this to the max length of the buffer, anything + * passed the max length will be ignored. Multiple writes will append + * to the buffer. * * These write modes control how current file position affects the behavior of * updating sysctl values through the proc interface on each write. |