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Currently, acpi video options can only be set on kernel command line. That's little inflexible; I'd like userland s2ram application that just works, and modifying kernel command line according to whitelist is not fun. It is better to just allow s2ram application to set video options just before suspend (according to the whitelist). This implements sysctl to allow setting suspend video options without reboot. (akpm: Documentation updates for this new sysctl are pending..) Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/* kernel version 2.2.10
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(c) 1998, 1999, Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>
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For general info and legal blurb, please look in README.
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This file contains documentation for the sysctl files in
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/proc/sys/kernel/ and is valid for Linux kernel version 2.2.
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The files in this directory can be used to tune and monitor
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miscellaneous and general things in the operation of the Linux
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kernel. Since some of the files _can_ be used to screw up your
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system, it is advisable to read both documentation and source
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before actually making adjustments.
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Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration)
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show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
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- acpi_video_flags
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- acct
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- core_pattern
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- core_uses_pid
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- ctrl-alt-del
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- dentry-state
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- domainname
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- hostname
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- hotplug
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- java-appletviewer [ binfmt_java, obsolete ]
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- java-interpreter [ binfmt_java, obsolete ]
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- l2cr [ PPC only ]
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- modprobe ==> Documentation/kmod.txt
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- msgmax
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- msgmnb
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- msgmni
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- osrelease
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- ostype
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- overflowgid
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- overflowuid
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- panic
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- pid_max
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- powersave-nap [ PPC only ]
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- printk
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- real-root-dev ==> Documentation/initrd.txt
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- reboot-cmd [ SPARC only ]
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- rtsig-max
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- rtsig-nr
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- sem
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- sg-big-buff [ generic SCSI device (sg) ]
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- shmall
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- shmmax [ sysv ipc ]
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- shmmni
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- stop-a [ SPARC only ]
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- suid_dumpable
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- sysrq ==> Documentation/sysrq.txt
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- tainted
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- threads-max
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- version
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acpi_video_flags:
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flags
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See Doc*/kernel/power/video.txt, it allows mode of video boot to be
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set during run time.
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acct:
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highwater lowwater frequency
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If BSD-style process accounting is enabled these values control
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its behaviour. If free space on filesystem where the log lives
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goes below <lowwater>% accounting suspends. If free space gets
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above <highwater>% accounting resumes. <Frequency> determines
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how often do we check the amount of free space (value is in
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seconds). Default:
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4 2 30
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That is, suspend accounting if there left <= 2% free; resume it
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if we got >=4%; consider information about amount of free space
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valid for 30 seconds.
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core_pattern:
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core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name.
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. max length 64 characters; default value is "core"
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. core_pattern is used as a pattern template for the output filename;
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certain string patterns (beginning with '%') are substituted with
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their actual values.
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. backward compatibility with core_uses_pid:
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If core_pattern does not include "%p" (default does not)
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and core_uses_pid is set, then .PID will be appended to
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the filename.
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. corename format specifiers:
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%<NUL> '%' is dropped
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%% output one '%'
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%p pid
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%u uid
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%g gid
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%s signal number
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%t UNIX time of dump
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%h hostname
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%e executable filename
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%<OTHER> both are dropped
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core_uses_pid:
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The default coredump filename is "core". By setting
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core_uses_pid to 1, the coredump filename becomes core.PID.
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If core_pattern does not include "%p" (default does not)
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and core_uses_pid is set, then .PID will be appended to
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the filename.
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ctrl-alt-del:
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When the value in this file is 0, ctrl-alt-del is trapped and
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sent to the init(1) program to handle a graceful restart.
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When, however, the value is > 0, Linux's reaction to a Vulcan
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Nerve Pinch (tm) will be an immediate reboot, without even
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syncing its dirty buffers.
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Note: when a program (like dosemu) has the keyboard in 'raw'
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mode, the ctrl-alt-del is intercepted by the program before it
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ever reaches the kernel tty layer, and it's up to the program
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to decide what to do with it.
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domainname & hostname:
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These files can be used to set the NIS/YP domainname and the
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hostname of your box in exactly the same way as the commands
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domainname and hostname, i.e.:
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# echo "darkstar" > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
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# echo "mydomain" > /proc/sys/kernel/domainname
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has the same effect as
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# hostname "darkstar"
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# domainname "mydomain"
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Note, however, that the classic darkstar.frop.org has the
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hostname "darkstar" and DNS (Internet Domain Name Server)
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domainname "frop.org", not to be confused with the NIS (Network
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Information Service) or YP (Yellow Pages) domainname. These two
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domain names are in general different. For a detailed discussion
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see the hostname(1) man page.
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hotplug:
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Path for the hotplug policy agent.
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Default value is "/sbin/hotplug".
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l2cr: (PPC only)
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This flag controls the L2 cache of G3 processor boards. If
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0, the cache is disabled. Enabled if nonzero.
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osrelease, ostype & version:
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# cat osrelease
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2.1.88
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# cat ostype
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Linux
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# cat version
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#5 Wed Feb 25 21:49:24 MET 1998
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The files osrelease and ostype should be clear enough. Version
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needs a little more clarification however. The '#5' means that
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this is the fifth kernel built from this source base and the
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date behind it indicates the time the kernel was built.
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The only way to tune these values is to rebuild the kernel :-)
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overflowgid & overflowuid:
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if your architecture did not always support 32-bit UIDs (i.e. arm, i386,
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m68k, sh, and sparc32), a fixed UID and GID will be returned to
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applications that use the old 16-bit UID/GID system calls, if the actual
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UID or GID would exceed 65535.
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These sysctls allow you to change the value of the fixed UID and GID.
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The default is 65534.
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panic:
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The value in this file represents the number of seconds the
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kernel waits before rebooting on a panic. When you use the
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software watchdog, the recommended setting is 60.
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panic_on_oops:
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Controls the kernel's behaviour when an oops or BUG is encountered.
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0: try to continue operation
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1: delay a few seconds (to give klogd time to record the oops output) and
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then panic. If the `panic' sysctl is also non-zero then the machine will
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be rebooted.
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pid_max:
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PID allocation wrap value. When the kenrel's next PID value
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reaches this value, it wraps back to a minimum PID value.
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PIDs of value pid_max or larger are not allocated.
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powersave-nap: (PPC only)
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If set, Linux-PPC will use the 'nap' mode of powersaving,
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otherwise the 'doze' mode will be used.
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printk:
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The four values in printk denote: console_loglevel,
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default_message_loglevel, minimum_console_loglevel and
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default_console_loglevel respectively.
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These values influence printk() behavior when printing or
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logging error messages. See 'man 2 syslog' for more info on
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the different loglevels.
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- console_loglevel: messages with a higher priority than
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this will be printed to the console
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- default_message_level: messages without an explicit priority
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will be printed with this priority
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- minimum_console_loglevel: minimum (highest) value to which
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console_loglevel can be set
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- default_console_loglevel: default value for console_loglevel
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printk_ratelimit:
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Some warning messages are rate limited. printk_ratelimit specifies
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the minimum length of time between these messages (in jiffies), by
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default we allow one every 5 seconds.
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A value of 0 will disable rate limiting.
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printk_ratelimit_burst:
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While long term we enforce one message per printk_ratelimit
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seconds, we do allow a burst of messages to pass through.
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printk_ratelimit_burst specifies the number of messages we can
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send before ratelimiting kicks in.
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reboot-cmd: (Sparc only)
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??? This seems to be a way to give an argument to the Sparc
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ROM/Flash boot loader. Maybe to tell it what to do after
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rebooting. ???
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rtsig-max & rtsig-nr:
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The file rtsig-max can be used to tune the maximum number
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of POSIX realtime (queued) signals that can be outstanding
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in the system.
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rtsig-nr shows the number of RT signals currently queued.
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sg-big-buff:
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This file shows the size of the generic SCSI (sg) buffer.
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You can't tune it just yet, but you could change it on
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compile time by editing include/scsi/sg.h and changing
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the value of SG_BIG_BUFF.
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There shouldn't be any reason to change this value. If
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you can come up with one, you probably know what you
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are doing anyway :)
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shmmax:
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This value can be used to query and set the run time limit
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on the maximum shared memory segment size that can be created.
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Shared memory segments up to 1Gb are now supported in the
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kernel. This value defaults to SHMMAX.
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suid_dumpable:
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This value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid
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or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are
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0 - (default) - traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed
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privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped
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1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is
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owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is
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intended for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked.
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2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped
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readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove
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such a dump but not access it directly. For security reasons
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core dumps in this mode will not overwrite one another or
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other files. This mode is appropriate when adminstrators are
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attempting to debug problems in a normal environment.
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tainted:
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Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which
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can be ORed together:
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1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this
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includes modules with no license.
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Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
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2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f.
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Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools.
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4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP.
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