Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst says that the overcommit
amount can be set via vm.overcommit_ratio and vm.overcommit_kbytes.
Add a clarification that those only take effect in overcommit handling
mode 2 ("Don't overcommit"), i.e. they do not act as an "additional"
limit that is always enforced.
Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@xxxxxx>
---
I've had to look this one up in the code enough times already :)
Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst
index 0dd54bbe4afa..1addb0c374a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ The Linux kernel supports the following overcommit handling modes
The overcommit policy is set via the sysctl ``vm.overcommit_memory``.
The overcommit amount can be set via ``vm.overcommit_ratio`` (percentage)
-or ``vm.overcommit_kbytes`` (absolute value).
+or ``vm.overcommit_kbytes`` (absolute value). These only have an effect
+when ``vm.overcommit_memory`` is set to 2.
The current overcommit limit and amount committed are viewable in
``/proc/meminfo`` as CommitLimit and Committed_AS respectively.
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