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From: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] docs: admin-guide: Explain cmdline argument exceed_file_max_panic in fs.rst
Date: Sat,  6 Jun 2020 14:32:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1591425140-20613-3-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1591425140-20613-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>

Explain the cmdline argument exceed_file_max_panic in the file
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
index 2a45119..0cfc5c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
@@ -126,6 +126,13 @@ Attempts to allocate more file descriptors than file-max are
 reported with printk, look for "VFS: file-max limit <number>
 reached".
 
+If there exists file descriptor leaks, when file-max limit reached,
+we can see that the system can not work well and at worst the user
+can do nothing, it is even impossible to execute reboot command due
+to too many open files in system. In order to reboot automatically
+to recover to the normal status, we can use the cmdline argument
+exceed_file_max_panic to control whether to call panic in this case.
+
 
 nr_open
 -------
-- 
2.1.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-06  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-06  6:32 [PATCH 1/3] fs: Use get_max_files() instead of files_stat.max_files in alloc_empty_file() Tiezhu Yang
2020-06-06  6:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] fs: Introduce cmdline argument exceed_file_max_panic Tiezhu Yang
2020-06-06 14:13   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-06 14:28   ` Al Viro
2020-06-06  6:32 ` Tiezhu Yang [this message]

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