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author | Linus Torvalds | 2014-01-23 19:11:50 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds | 2014-01-23 19:11:50 -0800 |
commit | 3aacd625f20129f5a41ea3ff3b5353b0e4dabd01 (patch) | |
tree | 7cf4ea65397f80098b30494df31cfc8f5fa26d63 /Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | |
parent | 7e21774db5cc9cf8fe93a64a2f0c6cf47db8ab24 (diff) | |
parent | 2a1d689c9ba42a6066540fb221b6ecbd6298b728 (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- the rest of MM
- add generic fixmap.h, use it
- backlight updates
- dynamic_debug updates
- printk() updates
- checkpatch updates
- binfmt_elf
- ramfs
- init/
- autofs4
- drivers/rtc
- nilfs
- hfsplus
- Documentation/
- coredump
- procfs
- fork
- exec
- kexec
- kdump
- partitions
- rapidio
- rbtree
- userns
- memstick
- w1
- decompressors
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (197 commits)
lib/decompress_unlz4.c: always set an error return code on failures
romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super
drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c: add strong pullup emulation
drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_pci_ms.c: fix ms card data transfer bug
userns: relax the posix_acl_valid() checks
arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of solution using repeated rb_erase()
fs-ext3-use-rbtree-postorder-iteration-helper-instead-of-opencoding-fix
fs/ext3: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/jffs2: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c: use rbtree postorder iteration instead of opencoding
rbtree/test: test rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe()
rbtree/test: move rb_node to the middle of the test struct
rapidio: add modular rapidio core build into powerpc and mips branches
partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose
kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation
kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note
kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load
fs/exec.c: call arch_pick_mmap_layout() only once
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 6d486404200e..ee9a2f983b99 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - domainname - hostname - hotplug +- kexec_load_disabled - kptr_restrict - kstack_depth_to_print [ X86 only ] - l2cr [ PPC only ] @@ -287,6 +288,18 @@ Default value is "/sbin/hotplug". ============================================================== +kexec_load_disabled: + +A toggle indicating if the kexec_load syscall has been disabled. This +value defaults to 0 (false: kexec_load enabled), but can be set to 1 +(true: kexec_load disabled). Once true, kexec can no longer be used, and +the toggle cannot be set back to false. This allows a kexec image to be +loaded before disabling the syscall, allowing a system to set up (and +later use) an image without it being altered. Generally used together +with the "modules_disabled" sysctl. + +============================================================== + kptr_restrict: This toggle indicates whether restrictions are placed on @@ -331,7 +344,7 @@ A toggle value indicating if modules are allowed to be loaded in an otherwise modular kernel. This toggle defaults to off (0), but can be set true (1). Once true, modules can be neither loaded nor unloaded, and the toggle cannot be set back -to false. +to false. Generally used with the "kexec_load_disabled" toggle. ============================================================== |