user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting, branch v3.4.70

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23Z

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

[PATCH] omit CommitAvail

2004-10-28T01:17:47Z

CommitLimit was a good addition to /proc/meminfo, but we don't usually show both what's used and what's free: don't waste lines of screenspace, omit CommitAvail, let the user do the arithmetic as with all the others. And in updating that Documentation, removed the long-gone ReverseMaps. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Display committed memory limit and available in meminfo

2004-10-20T01:31:04Z

The following patch will have the committed memory limit (per the current overcommit ratio) and the amount of memory remaining under this limit displayed in meminfo. It's presently somewhat difficult to use the strict memory overcommit settings as it's somewhat difficult to determine the amount of memory remaining under the cap. This patch would make using strict overcommit a good bit simpler. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] overcommit symbolic constants

2004-09-30T01:41:37Z

Played a bit with overcommit the past hour. Am not entirely satisfied with the no overcommit mode 2 - programs segfault when the system is close to that boundary. So, instead of the somewhat larger patch that I planned to send, just symbolic names for the modes.

[PATCH] overcommit root margin

2003-05-25T08:12:57Z

From: Dave Hansen This patch makes vm_enough_memory(), more likely return failure when overcommit_memory==0 and !CAP_SYS_ADMIN. I'm not sure it's worth having another tunable just for this. I also reworked the documentation a bit. It should be a lot clearer to read now.

[PATCH] replace its with it's where appropriate.

2003-02-25T10:49:45Z

This patch replaces its (possessive of it) with it's (it is) in the following cases where "it is" is meant. its a -> it's a its an -> it's an its not -> it's not except for the files arch/cris/boot/rescue/head.S arch/cris/kernel/kgdb.c where the substitution is "its not" -> "it is not" to avoid possible problems with single quotes in assembly comments.

[PATCH] overcommit-accounting doc fix

2002-10-29T01:17:00Z

[PATCH] update overcommit doc and comment

2002-07-29T08:27:11Z

Update Doc and remove FIXME comment from fork.c now accounting right.

[PATCH] strict overcommit

2002-07-28T10:15:26Z

Alan's overcommit patch, brought to 2.5 by Robert Love. Can't say I've tested its functionality at all, but it doesn't crash, it has been in -ac and RH kernels for some time and I haven't observed any of its functions on profiles. "So what is strict VM overcommit? We introduce new overcommit policies that attempt to never succeed an allocation that can not be fulfilled by the backing store and consequently never OOM. This is achieved through strict accounting of the committed address space and a policy to allow/refuse allocations based on that accounting. In the strictest of modes, it should be impossible to allocate more memory than available and impossible to OOM. All memory failures should be pushed down to the allocation routines -- malloc, mmap, etc. The new modes are available via sysctl (same as before). See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting for more information."