Merge branch 'for-linus-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason...

[deliverable/linux.git] / Documentation / sysctl / kernel.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index a93b414672a71ac6fa9bac1e848215804bde139c..57653a44b128c821520b071f0ec4b53bfacc7b96 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -58,12 +58,15 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 - panic_on_stackoverflow
 - panic_on_unrecovered_nmi
 - panic_on_warn
+- perf_cpu_time_max_percent
+- perf_event_paranoid
 - pid_max
 - powersave-nap               [ PPC only ]
 - printk
 - printk_delay
 - printk_ratelimit
 - printk_ratelimit_burst
+- pty                         ==> Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt
 - randomize_va_space
 - real-root-dev               ==> Documentation/initrd.txt
 - reboot-cmd                  [ SPARC only ]
@@ -639,6 +642,17 @@ allowed to execute.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+perf_event_paranoid:
+
+Controls use of the performance events system by unprivileged
+users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN).  The default value is 1.
+
+ -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users
+>=0: Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without CAP_IOC_LOCK
+>=1: Disallow CPU event access by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+>=2: Disallow kernel profiling by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+
+==============================================================
 
 pid_max:
 
@@ -760,6 +774,14 @@ rtsig-nr shows the number of RT signals currently queued.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+sched_schedstats:
+
+Enables/disables scheduler statistics. Enabling this feature
+incurs a small amount of overhead in the scheduler but is
+useful for debugging and performance tuning.
+
+==============================================================
+
 sg-big-buff:
 
 This file shows the size of the generic SCSI (sg) buffer.