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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2025-10-03 17:16:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2025-10-03 17:16:13 -0700
commitee2fe81cdcd17f875aeca074afe64d7e8f57750f (patch)
tree5f0f93208c8f9f71edb2b6ef0593125419725aa7 /Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl
parent50647a1176b7abd1b4ae55b491eb2fbbeef89db9 (diff)
parent99510c324e531addd9f7b80a72dab7435ca66215 (diff)
Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal include" mode. - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been converted to Python and updated for current systems. - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links. - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol. - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide. ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7 docs: remove cdomain.py Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do" docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses". Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef() docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef() ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst18
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
index 6c54718c9d04..9b7f65c3efd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ 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
+before the pipe size gets limited to two pages. Once this limit is reached,
+new pipes will be limited to two pages 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
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst
index 03346f98c7b9..4dd2c9b5d752 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst
@@ -66,25 +66,31 @@ This documentation is about:
=============== ===============================================================
abi/ execution domains & personalities
-debug/ <empty>
-dev/ device specific information (eg dev/cdrom/info)
+<$ARCH> tuning controls for various CPU architecture (e.g. csky, s390)
+crypto/ <undocumented>
+debug/ <undocumented>
+dev/ device specific information (e.g. dev/cdrom/info)
fs/ specific filesystems
filehandle, inode, dentry and quota tuning
binfmt_misc <Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst>
kernel/ global kernel info / tuning
miscellaneous stuff
+ some architecture-specific controls
+ security (LSM) stuff
net/ networking stuff, for documentation look in:
<Documentation/networking/>
proc/ <empty>
sunrpc/ SUN Remote Procedure Call (NFS)
+user/ Per user namespace limits
vm/ memory management tuning
buffer and cache management
-user/ Per user per user namespace limits
+xen/ <undocumented>
=============== ===============================================================
-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 :-)
+These are the subdirs I have on my system or have been discovered by
+searching through the source code. There might be more or other subdirs
+in another setup. If you see another dir, I'd really like to hear about
+it :-)
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1