Merge tag 'v4.4.65' into linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4

[firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git] / Documentation / sysctl / fs.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
index 88152f214f48cb69c643d4bf2ff2ac9a61ad2eb0..35e17f748ca78a927df127289ccd20689382aa73 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/fs:
 - nr_open
 - overflowuid
 - overflowgid
+- pipe-user-pages-hard
+- pipe-user-pages-soft
 - protected_hardlinks
 - protected_symlinks
 - suid_dumpable
@@ -159,6 +161,27 @@ The default is 65534.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+pipe-user-pages-hard:
+
+Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes.
+Once this limit is reached, no new pipes may be allocated until usage goes
+below the limit again. When set to 0, no limit is applied, which is the default
+setting.
+
+==============================================================
+
+pipe-user-pages-soft:
+
+Maximum total number of pages a non-privileged user may allocate for pipes
+before the pipe size gets limited to a single page. Once this limit is reached,
+new pipes will be limited to a single page in size for this user in order to
+limit total memory usage, and trying to increase them using fcntl() will be
+denied until usage goes below the limit again. The default value allows to
+allocate up to 1024 pipes at their default size. When set to 0, no limit is
+applied.
+
+==============================================================
+
 protected_hardlinks:
 
 A long-standing class of security issues is the hardlink-based
@@ -242,6 +265,13 @@ aio-nr can grow to.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+mount-max:
+
+This denotes the maximum number of mounts that may exist
+in a mount namespace.
+
+==============================================================
+
 
 2. /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
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