linux_dsm_epyc7002/Documentation/sysctl
Linus Torvalds c5ce28df0e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) More iov_iter conversion work from Al Viro.

    [ The "crypto: switch af_alg_make_sg() to iov_iter" commit was
      wrong, and this pull actually adds an extra commit on top of the
      branch I'm pulling to fix that up, so that the pre-merge state is
      ok.   - Linus ]

 2) Various optimizations to the ipv4 forwarding information base trie
    lookup implementation.  From Alexander Duyck.

 3) Remove sock_iocb altogether, from CHristoph Hellwig.

 4) Allow congestion control algorithm selection via routing metrics.
    From Daniel Borkmann.

 5) Make ipv4 uncached route list per-cpu, from Eric Dumazet.

 6) Handle rfs hash collisions more gracefully, also from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add xmit_more support to r8169, e1000, and e1000e drivers.  From
    Florian Westphal.

 8) Transparent Ethernet Bridging support for GRO, from Jesse Gross.

 9) Add BPF packet actions to packet scheduler, from Jiri Pirko.

10) Add support for uniqu flow IDs to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer.

11) New NetCP ethernet driver, from Muralidharan Karicheri and Wingman
    Kwok.

12) More sanely handle out-of-window dupacks, which can result in
    serious ACK storms.  From Neal Cardwell.

13) Various rhashtable bug fixes and enhancements, from Herbert Xu,
    Patrick McHardy, and Thomas Graf.

14) Support xmit_more in be2net, from Sathya Perla.

15) Group Policy extensions for vxlan, from Thomas Graf.

16) Remove Checksum Offload support for vxlan, from Tom Herbert.

17) Like ipv4, support lockless transmit over ipv6 UDP sockets.  From
    Vlad Yasevich.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1494+1 commits)
  crypto: fix af_alg_make_sg() conversion to iov_iter
  ipv4: Namespecify TCP PMTU mechanism
  i40e: Fix for stats init function call in Rx setup
  tcp: don't include Fast Open option in SYN-ACK on pure SYN-data
  openvswitch: Only set TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT if VXLAN-GBP metadata is set
  ipv6: Make __ipv6_select_ident static
  ipv6: Fix fragment id assignment on LE arches.
  bridge: Fix inability to add non-vlan fdb entry
  net: Mellanox: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "vunmap"
  cxgb4: Add support in cxgb4 to get expansion rom version via ethtool
  ethtool: rename reserved1 memeber in ethtool_drvinfo for expansion ROM version
  net: dsa: Remove redundant phy_attach()
  IB/mlx4: Reset flow support for IB kernel ULPs
  IB/mlx4: Always use the correct port for mirrored multicast attachments
  net/bonding: Fix potential bad memory access during bonding events
  tipc: remove tipc_snprintf
  tipc: nl compat add noop and remove legacy nl framework
  tipc: convert legacy nl stats show to nl compat
  tipc: convert legacy nl net id get to nl compat
  tipc: convert legacy nl net id set to nl compat
  ...
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abi.txt
fs.txt Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-08-01 10:26:23 -07:00
kernel.txt livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH 2014-12-22 15:40:48 +01:00
net.txt net-timestamp: no-payload only sysctl 2015-02-02 18:46:51 -08:00
README
sunrpc.txt
vm.txt mm, pcp: allow restoring percpu_pagelist_fraction default 2014-06-23 16:47:43 -07:00

Documentation for /proc/sys/		kernel version 2.2.10
	(c) 1998, 1999,  Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>

'Why', I hear you ask, 'would anyone even _want_ documentation
for them sysctl files? If anybody really needs it, it's all in
the source...'

Well, this documentation is written because some people either
don't know they need to tweak something, or because they don't
have the time or knowledge to read the source code.

Furthermore, the programmers who built sysctl have built it to
be actually used, not just for the fun of programming it :-)

==============================================================

Legal blurb:

As usual, there are two main things to consider:
1. you get what you pay for
2. it's free

The consequences are that I won't guarantee the correctness of
this document, and if you come to me complaining about how you
screwed up your system because of wrong documentation, I won't
feel sorry for you. I might even laugh at you...

But of course, if you _do_ manage to screw up your system using
only the sysctl options used in this file, I'd like to hear of
it. Not only to have a great laugh, but also to make sure that
you're the last RTFMing person to screw up.

In short, e-mail your suggestions, corrections and / or horror
stories to: <riel@nl.linux.org>

Rik van Riel.

==============================================================

Introduction:

Sysctl is a means of configuring certain aspects of the kernel
at run-time, and the /proc/sys/ directory is there so that you
don't even need special tools to do it!
In fact, there are only four things needed to use these config
facilities:
- a running Linux system
- root access
- common sense (this is especially hard to come by these days)
- knowledge of what all those values mean

As a quick 'ls /proc/sys' will show, the directory consists of
several (arch-dependent?) subdirs. Each subdir is mainly about
one part of the kernel, so you can do configuration on a piece
by piece basis, or just some 'thematic frobbing'.

The subdirs are about:
abi/		execution domains & personalities
debug/		<empty>
dev/		device specific information (eg dev/cdrom/info)
fs/		specific filesystems
		filehandle, inode, dentry and quota tuning
		binfmt_misc <Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt>
kernel/		global kernel info / tuning
		miscellaneous stuff
net/		networking stuff, for documentation look in:
		<Documentation/networking/>
proc/		<empty>
sunrpc/		SUN Remote Procedure Call (NFS)
vm/		memory management tuning
		buffer and cache management

These are the subdirs I have on my system. There might be more
or other subdirs in another setup. If you see another dir, I'd
really like to hear about it :-)