Merge git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / Documentation / sysctl / vm.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index a6e360d..6c7d18c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ The default is 1 percent.
 mmap_min_addr
 
 This file indicates the amount of address space  which a user process will
-be restricted from mmaping.  Since kernel null dereference bugs could
+be restricted from mmapping.  Since kernel null dereference bugs could
 accidentally operate based on the information in the first couple of pages
 of memory userspace processes should not be allowed to write to them.  By
 default this value is set to 0 and no protections will be enforced by the
@@ -573,11 +573,14 @@ Because other nodes' memory may be free. This means system total status
 may be not fatal yet.
 
 If this is set to 2, the kernel panics compulsorily even on the
-above-mentioned.
+above-mentioned. Even oom happens under memory cgroup, the whole
+system panics.
 
 The default value is 0.
 1 and 2 are for failover of clustering. Please select either
 according to your policy of failover.
+panic_on_oom=2+kdump gives you very strong tool to investigate
+why oom happens. You can get snapshot.
 
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