[PATCH] docs: sysctl: add a few more top-level /proc/sys entries

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Aug 19 2025 - 03:57:32 EST


Add a few missing directories under /proc/sys.
Fix punctuation and doubled words.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20250814.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst
+++ linux-next-20250814/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst
@@ -66,25 +66,31 @@ This documentation is about:

=============== ===============================================================
abi/ execution domains & personalities
-debug/ <empty>
-dev/ device specific information (eg dev/cdrom/info)
+<$ARCH> tuning controls for various CPU architecture (e.g. csky, s390)
+crypto/ <undocumented>
+debug/ <undocumented>
+dev/ device specific information (e.g. dev/cdrom/info)
fs/ specific filesystems
filehandle, inode, dentry and quota tuning
binfmt_misc <Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst>
kernel/ global kernel info / tuning
miscellaneous stuff
+ some architecture-specific controls
+ security (LSM) stuff
net/ networking stuff, for documentation look in:
<Documentation/networking/>
proc/ <empty>
sunrpc/ SUN Remote Procedure Call (NFS)
+user/ Per user namespace limits
vm/ memory management tuning
buffer and cache management
-user/ Per user per user namespace limits
+xen/ <undocumented>
=============== ===============================================================

-These are the subdirs I have on my system. There might be more
-or other subdirs in another setup. If you see another dir, I'd
-really like to hear about it :-)
+These are the subdirs I have on my system or have been discovered by
+searching through the source code. There might be more or other subdirs
+in another setup. If you see another dir, I'd really like to hear about
+it :-)

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