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vm.txt: document min_free_pages as critical for correctness
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vmtxt-document-min_free_pages-as-critical-for-correctness.patch
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Subject: vm.txt: document min_free_pages as critical for correctness
From: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
min_free_pages is critical for correctness, document it as such.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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diff -puN
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt~vmtxt-document-min_free_pages-as-critical-for-correctness
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
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a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt~vmtxt-document-min_free_pages-as-critical-for-correctness
+++ a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ of kilobytes free. The VM uses this num
value for each lowmem zone in the system. Each lowmem zone gets
a number of reserved free pages based proportionally on its size.
+Some minimal ammount of memory is needed to satisfy PF_MEMALLOC
+allocations; if you set this to lower than 1024KB, your system will
+become subtly broken, and prone to deadlock under high loads.
+
+Setting this too high will OOM your machine instantly.
+
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percpu_pagelist_fraction
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