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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index ee09dec47c96..c28245e1279b 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ for more than this value report a warning.
This file shows up if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK is enabled.
0: means infinite timeout - no checking done.
+Possible values to set are in range {0..LONG_MAX/HZ}.
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 9dc0b8a780ec..0c17688632a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -697,7 +697,8 @@ The batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result. It is
set to pcp->high/4. The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8)
The initial value is zero. Kernel does not use this value at boot time to set
-the high water marks for each per cpu page list.
+the high water marks for each per cpu page list. If the user writes '0' to this
+sysctl, it will revert to this default behavior.
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