Commit 24950898 authored by Pavel Machek's avatar Pavel Machek Committed by Linus Torvalds

vm.txt: document min_free_pages as critical for correctness

min_free_pages is critical for correctness, document it as such.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f4e87570
......@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ of kilobytes free. The VM uses this number to compute a pages_min
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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