From 863981e96738983919de841ec669e157e6bdaeb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 04:34:46 -0300
Subject: Linux-libre 4.7.1-gnu

---
 Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt')

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 34a5fece3..720355cbd 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
 - panic_on_oom
 - percpu_pagelist_fraction
 - stat_interval
+- stat_refresh
 - swappiness
 - user_reserve_kbytes
 - vfs_cache_pressure
@@ -755,6 +756,19 @@ is 1 second.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+stat_refresh
+
+Any read or write (by root only) flushes all the per-cpu vm statistics
+into their global totals, for more accurate reports when testing
+e.g. cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh /proc/meminfo
+
+As a side-effect, it also checks for negative totals (elsewhere reported
+as 0) and "fails" with EINVAL if any are found, with a warning in dmesg.
+(At time of writing, a few stats are known sometimes to be found negative,
+with no ill effects: errors and warnings on these stats are suppressed.)
+
+==============================================================
+
 swappiness
 
 This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap
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