Documentation/sysctl: document page_lock_unfairness

commit 5ef64cc8987a ("mm: allow a controlled amount of unfairness in the
page lock") introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation.

Add a simple entry to the documentation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220325164437.120246-1-jsavitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Joel Savitz 2022-04-28 23:16:01 -07:00 committed by akpm
parent 4fcdcc1291
commit 8d98e42fb2

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@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- overcommit_memory
- overcommit_ratio
- page-cluster
- page_lock_unfairness
- panic_on_oom
- percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
- stat_interval
@ -754,6 +755,14 @@ extra faults and I/O delays for following faults if they would have been part of
that consecutive pages readahead would have brought in.
page_lock_unfairness
====================
This value determines the number of times that the page lock can be
stolen from under a waiter. After the lock is stolen the number of times
specified in this file (default is 5), the "fair lock handoff" semantics
will apply, and the waiter will only be awakened if the lock can be taken.
panic_on_oom
============